One thing that is necessary and unchangeable in my life is traveling. I travel from China to America twice a year visiting my families and spending the time to relax.  After completing the survey in my carbon footprint. Comparing with the results from my classmates, I found it interesting how my carbon footprint had a significant difference from theirs. The usage of traveling in my carbon footprint can be two or three times more than my classmates' usage, making my overall data a lot more than the average data. I was surprised but feel like traveling as a part of my carbon footprint is not changeable. I went back to China during the holidays and for special events. I noticed the cost for travel from China to America and was trying to limit the time going back to visit my families. But even though I did my best limiting the time went back, I still wanted and needed to go back to China. So as for me, traveling, as a big part of my carbon footprint is not changeable.

I have the same issue with my carbon footprint too. I also travel to another country almost every year and this increases my carbon footprint because I too need to use a plane to get to this country. Basically all of my family lives in Argentina and my family and I go to visit them every year. Although over the years it has reduced to one visit to Argentina every other year, I still have greatly damaged the earth by taking so many plane rides there and back over my life. One round trip flight to Argentina and back releases 4.37 tons of CO2 according to the carbon balanced calculator. And also according to a guardian article, this makes up for almost a quarter of my total average carbon footprint. It is awful to see the heavy price I have to pay upon the earth to see my family. I have been trying to see if anyone in the world is on the verge of making flying sustainable however, it seems as if we are a long ways off from doing that. According to a Los Angeles Times article about electric planes, we are very far off from creating planes that are electric that can travel fo r very long distances. So because flying carbon free is not a viable solution at the moment, what can I do to lower my carbon emissions when I fly? I know an option could be to just to fly at all, however flying is the only way I can really travel to Argentina.