One of the reasons I'm optimistic about the state of the world is commercial air travel, which—for all the inconveniences and gripes—is a global system that coordinates millions of people every day to ensure that one plane lands for every one taking off.
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What about environmental impact?
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Given it’s a considerable contributor to the destruction of the climate, I don’t think it’s great ad for capitalism. But the engineering is definitely cool!
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The airline industry has a massively outsized carbon footprint. Flying is one of the most destructive activities you can do. Yet we celebrate travel as some benevolent thing as we tally up the number of countries we’ve visited, to prove how cultured we are.
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