Flash Forward
Flash Forward
Rose Eveleth
Grounded
11 minutes Posted Jul 14, 2015 at 7:00 am.
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Need to get from New York to Paris? Or San Diego? Chances are you’re not taking a car or a bus or a boat to go there. Instead, you’d hop on a plane. But aside from hurting your wallet, commercial flights also hurt the planet, contributing to the continuous input of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that is in turn contributing to climate change. So what if we stopped flights? What would happen?

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