I am willing to change my travel habits, as my family flies multiple times a year for recreational purposes, which makes a large impact on our carbon footprint. I assume my family will be unhappy to do less travel, but other than that there are no major consequences. With the outbreak of COVD-19, my family is exploring activities we can do at home without increasing our carbon footprint. According to a New York Times article, “Take one round-trip flight between New York and California, and you’ve generated about 20 percent of the greenhouse gases that your car emits over an entire year.” My grandparents live in New York, so we usually take several trips to visit them, and as they get older, it will be a challenge to not visit them as often. Having my family support me makes not traveling easier, and insight into how to travel or communicate without increasing one’s carbon footprint more than necessary.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/clim … rming.html

I agree with your idea of traveling less to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. I especially think that people are so caught up in their personal leisure of traveling a lot, that they do not realize how much it is affecting the atmosphere. With the recent COVID-19 epidemic, flights are being cancelled and travel is severely being reduced to slow the spread of COVID-19. I think that after taking some time off from traveling from staying quarantined, people might realize that lots of airline travel is unnecessary and may further reduce their travel. If this is the case, then the carbon footprint produced from travel will decrease, and ultimately benefit climate change. Do you think that flights minimize will once the COVID-19 epidemic subsides?  ?
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51904769

I agree that limiting air travel will be a very effective way of reducing your carbon footprint. According to an article on climate change from the BBC, "A journey from London to Madrid would emit 43kg (95lb) of CO2 per passenger by train, but 118kg by plane (or 265kg if the non-CO2 emissions are included)." This statistic shows just how bad air travel is for the Earth, and by flying less you would be doing a lot to help the environment. Also, a lot of air travel is for leisure, which can and should be cut down as it is not a necessity. To answer Eva Topete's question about COVID-19 affecting the number of flights, I do believe that after the panic has passed, there will be fewer flights because the unsanitary environment of airplanes has been brought to light due to the spread of the virus. However, I don't think it will minimize enough to significantly reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses that are emitted by planes. Instead, I think that what people really need to hear about is how their flights are affecting the environment. I think that a lot of people were surprised by how much flights affected their total carbon footprint when they finished calculating, myself included. Many people don't understand how bad air travel is for the environment, but if information regarding air travel and CO2 emissions was more widespread then I think the number of flights people take would be reduced.

link to source: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49349566

I agree that limiting air travel will be a very effective way of reducing your carbon footprint. According to an article on climate change from the BBC, "A journey from London to Madrid would emit 43kg (95lb) of CO2 per passenger by train, but 118kg by plane (or 265kg if the non-CO2 emissions are included)." This statistic shows just how bad air travel is for the Earth, and by flying less you would be doing a lot to help the environment. Also, a lot of air travel is for leisure, which can and should be cut down as it is not a necessity. To answer Eva Topete's question about COVID-19 affecting the number of flights, I do believe that after the panic has passed, there will be fewer flights because the unsanitary environment of airplanes has been brought to light due to the spread of the virus. However, I don't think it will minimize enough to significantly reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses that are emitted by planes. Instead, I think that what people really need to hear about is how their flights are affecting the environment. I think that a lot of people were surprised by how much flights affected their total carbon footprint when they finished calculating, myself included. Many people don't understand how bad air travel is for the environment, but if information regarding air travel and CO2 emissions was more widespread then I think the number of flights people take would be reduced.

link to source: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49349566

I also agree with limiting my travel. Me and my family tend to take two flights a year to go see extended family. Last year was different though, I took three long, round trip flights to visit family. This greatly impacted my carbon footprint in a negative way. According to the New York Times, "One round-trip flight from New York to Europe or to San Francisco creates a warming effect equivalent to 2 or 3 tons of carbon dioxide per person." I went from SF to NY on one of my round trip flights, so I would have put 2-3 tons of carbon into the atmosphere greatly effecting my carbon footprint and the atmosphere. If everyone took one less flight a year then the carbon emissions of humans would be down an incredible amount. Think about what we could do if we just took one less flight and was more continuous of CO2 and how the atmosphere is drastically warming and cooling because of it. I also agree that COVID-19 has caused less people to take flights durning this time for sanitary issues. There are also several travel bands on numerous  countries. Even in the midst of this pandemic can come some good; less carbon emissions. Even after the coronavirus passes, we should still continue to be cautious of what flights we take and how it effects our atmosphere and our world.

link to my source: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/sund … ravel.html

I agree that limiting air travel is a very effective way of reducing our carbon footprint, as there is no current eco-friendly style of flight.  I do feel that in a way, the current pandemic over COVID-19 has lowered people's carbon footprint, due to the fact that lots of people are being forced to work from home, and only leave for essentials. This therefore reduces the amount of carbon people emit because people are no longer allowed to fly somewhere, whether for business or vacation, as well as how people are advised to only leave their house for essentials (i.e. groceries, supplies, etc.). One thing that is a big thing that contributes to our carbon footprint, is cars. According to the EPA "A typical passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. This assumes the average gasoline vehicle on the road today has a fuel economy of about 22.0 miles per gallon and drives around 11,500 miles per year. Every gallon of gasoline burned creates about 8,887 grams of CO2." This is one of the more difficult issues to tackle, because lots of people own typical gasoline powered cars, and it's very expensive to just buy a new one. And most people drive somewhere every day (mostly to and from school / work). I think that people need to understand that driving and flying is bad for the environment, and although people can't create eco-friendly plane turbines, there are things people can do to reduce the amount of CO2 emitted from cars.

Link to source: https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/green … er-vehicle