"In case anyone is overcome with guilt: two people driving transafrica in a diesel car will burn less fuel per person than if they flew in a fully-seated 737."
I meet two hardcore environmentalists from South Africa in Morocco that I liked and respected. We travelled together for a few weeks and they said basically they same thing taking into account there were more people on their plane than in my landy.
Their year long trip through Africa, including 5 flights (two because of Malaria) was far worse than my 27,000km trip over 6 months in my landy.
Us humans are a virus on the planet and the sooner we eradicate ourselves the better. Or perhaps we should just slow our destruction down as much as possible... ;-)
[This message has been edited by dj@roamingyak.org (edited 19 August 2005).]
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