Air travel is a quintessential product of the fossil fuel era: It’s both highly convenient and difficult to replace with alternatives. Now as the impacts of climate change are becoming more urgent, a growing “flight shame” movement is prompting consumers to question their air travel. Glad You Asked host Joss Fong explores the ethical implications of flying in a world on the brink of crisis.

Key Sources:
Myclimate flight emission calculator
https://www.myclimate.org/fileadmin/u...

Observed Arctic sea-ice loss directly follows anthropogenic CO2 emission
https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Typical Passenger Vehicle
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/gre...

Carbon Footprint Calculations for Average Americans
https://externalassets.cooleffect.org...

Share of airplane trips by American adults
https://theicct.org/blog/staff/should...

Technological, economic and environmental prospects of all-electric aircraft https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156...

Maps of Greenland Ice Sheet
http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/

This is how global warming is reshaping Greenland
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/0...

Contrail cirrus radiative forcing for future air traffic
https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/19/81...

Hydrocarbon combustion
https://energyeducation.ca/encycloped...

The year in aviation: Billions of passengers, two high-profile accidents
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

Boeing CEO: Over 80% of the world has never taken a flight.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/07/boein...

As Billions More Fly, Here’s How Aviation Could Evolve
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/en...

According to the annual Airlines for America report, 48 percent of travelers in the United States flew on an airline in 2017.
https://www.travelpulse.com/news/airl...

Climate change in the US will hurt poor people the most, according to a bombshell federal report https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/26/clima...

Flygskam
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/...

Pipistrel Alpha Electro
https://www.pipistrel-usa.com/wp-cont...

Air Transport Action Group
https://www.atag.org/facts-figures.html

0:00 Intro
1:12 Flying High
2:30 Our Carbon Footprint
9:45 Flight Shaming
12:10 Electric Airplanes
16:42 Batteries Vs Fuel