My family loves to travel, and mainly by airplane. This has greatly affected my carbon footprint, which would be below the regional average if I did not travel as much. Airplane travel contributed 33,000 kgs of carbon to my total footprint. Even though I took 12 flights this year, I do not think I would be able to take any of them off the table. I feel like this is the same for most people, because who doesn't want to go on a vacation or see a new place? Automobile travel contributed another 873 kgs to my footprint, which I could reduce by traveling with more people in the car on road trips. I think airplane travel is the number one thing I could not take off the table in my carbon footprint.

Hi Jessica,
I agree with you! I also really love travelling, because I like to see new places. I am not ready to give up my travelling to reduce my carbon footprint. That is absolutely off the table for me! That is way I try to reduce my carbon footprint in other ways: I try to buy things only if I really need them, I try to save water and to use as much as possible public transportation! I think that if we don’t want to reduce our travelling we should pay attention to the other little things that can make a big deferens for our planet!!

Hi Jessica,
I agree with you! I also really love travelling, because I like to see new places. I am not ready to give up my travelling to reduce my carbon footprint. That is absolutely off the table for me! That is way I try to reduce my carbon footprint in other ways: I try to buy things only if I really need them, I try to save water and to use as much as possible public transportation! I think that if we don’t want to reduc e our travelling we should pay attention to the other little things that can make a big deferens for our planet!!

I agree with you. Even if I know that airplane trips are highly harmful to the environment (on average a long distance flight require 113 g/Km CO2 per passenger, a long domestic flight 177 g/Km CO2 per passenger and a short domestic flight 257 g/Km CO2 per passenger -source: http://lipasto.vtt.fi/yksikkopaastot/he … /ilmae.htm ), I can't help but consider trips off the table.
Personally, I always loved travelling. My dad passed me this passion and I'll probably love learning about new cultures, visiting new, stunning places and meeting new friends as long as I'll live.
I'm careful about my carbon footprint, as my family taught me, but everyone has something he can't stand to lose. Mine are airplane (and road) trips. I mean, I know it's not a need. If I had to, I could reluctantly give up on them, although my life would be kind of plain.