Long distance flight consumes the amount of fuel that a car uses for many years and pollutes the air. Some people think that we should discourage non-essential flights, such as tourists travel, rather than limit the use of cars. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
The ubiquity of air travel, especially one covering vast distances, has found itself in the eye of storm, and allegedly cog in the wheel of the environment imbroglio, besides causing wastage of fuel, thereby persuading environmentalists to curb unnecessary use of this facility, instead of proscribing cars. However, this suggestion lacks foresight, and cannot be considered plausible.
Advocates of such policy assume that an airborne aircraft tends to burn surfeit propellant, and releases emissions profusely, causing deterioration in the quality of air, so curtailing use of this medium of travelling to distance locales would mitigate pollution by alleviating discharge of effluents and greenhouse gases, easing the situation greatly.
Nevertheless, this postulation sounds preposterous; it lacks any concrete evidence to substantiate the fears about aircraft operating between distant locations being the primary culprit for the deterioration in the quality of air squandering of invaluable non-renewable resource since most of these jets fly at extremely high altitudes, between 28,000 and 40,000 feet, where they use the propellent frugally, something comparable to a personal four wheeler, so the tall claims and accusations about environmental decay being caused by these flying machines fall flat.
Similarly, when it comes to comparing the capacity used by both, while cars can only carry about eight people per trip, modern airliners, like Boeing 777, carry over three hundred passengers, and that over extremely vast distances, a feat beyond the former. Additionally, none travels unnecessarily, and tourist activity is a critical economic activity: a behemoth industry generating employment for millions and business worth billions.
Therefore, any suggestions made about halting dispensable flying for the good of the planet should be completely overlooked, and long flight should continue. The panacea lies in discovering better and greener technologies and not impeding economic activities.
