... Quote: Environment Minister Angela Merkel on 9 February 1995
"14 years later, of course, long since forgotten how to fly would be more expensive. 14 years later, flying is not so expensive but still cheaper. Accordingly, much is flying through the world.
with devastating Consequences for the climate. Carbon dioxide emissions in the transport sector increased according to surveys conducted by the European Environment Agency since 1990 to almost 36 percent. . To blame for this fiasco, especially the aviation emissions growth of 89 percent, "
" No tax, no eco-tax, no fuel tax, no stamp duty is - flying is artificially cheaper. This goes back to the Chicago Convention from the year 1944. At that time it was believed that "can help the future development of civil aviation in heavily in finding ways to friendship and understanding among the countries and peoples of the world." Certainly true, but this form of international understanding heats up the human problem of the 21st Century force. Because climate change will bring with it greater economic turmoil than the two world wars together, "warned Sir Nicholas Stern, former chief economist of the World Bank, November 2006 sensational in his report for the British government.
The air pollution caused by a plane per passenger is up to five times as large as the one that causes an ICE. And compared with the number of customers of the railway in the aviation industry exploded. Since 1990, the number of flight movements in Europe each year by five percent. End of the nineties, the global air traffic of 3.5 percent was about man-made greenhouse effect at. Today there are probably nine percent "
extracts from source.
http://www.wir-klimaretter.de/content/view/2720/269/
graphic below shows you the growing air traffic problem:
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