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The article also pours cold Aviation’s record in reduc- 2.This waste in 2017 produced
water on aviation’s future devel- ing fuel and thus emissions is 9.3bn tonnes of CO2 equiv-
opments suggesting that the impressive and since the jet age alent (GtCO2e) – four times
technology that might help the commenced in earnest during aviation and marine combined.
industry meet its 2050 goal the late 1950s the amount of 3.All the food produced but
is “barely perceptible on the fuel used per passenger has never eaten would be suffi-
horizon.” Yet new generation declined by around 85% – an cient to feed two billion people.
engines are running or will do so outstanding record by any mea- That is more than twice the
in the next few years - hardly on sure, which can be seen in the number of undernourished
the horizon. graphic from Greening Wings to
be released in July 2004 below. people across the globe.
In 2006 Joss Garman’s planestu- 4.If wasted food were a coun-
pid.com proclaimed: “There What is extraordi- try, it would be the third-largest
won’t be any significant break- nary about the heated producer of carbon dioxide in
through in engine emissions for the world, after the USA and
at least three decades. There’s debate is that many China.
no technical fix.” Since then, other serious polluters
the 787 and A350 have entered largely fly under the
service in 2011 and 2014 and
they burn up to 34% less fuel per social and mainstream
passenger than the planes they media radar.
replaced, while the A320neo
family and the 737 MAX burn Food, clothing and air condition-
about 15% less fuel. ers, are by any measure huge
contributors to climate change.
It is this gross According to the UN the Food Now consider our love of fash-
distortion of facts and Agricultural Organisation ion. According to a report by
and the Carbon Brief:
that is aviation’s great Zurich.com:
enemy as it continues 1.One-third of food produced 1.The fashion industry pro-
its incredible growth. for human consumption is lost duces about 10% of annual
or wasted globally.
global carbon emissions,
which is more than all mar-
itime shipping and flights
combined.
Fuel efficiency gain since 1960 2.What’s more, fashion’s emis-
sions of harmful greenhouse
gases are projected to grow
by more than 50% by 2030.
3.The fashion sector (includ-
ing cotton farming) also uses
about 93 billion cubic meters
of water annually, represent-
ing 4% of all global freshwater
withdrawals.
4.Just to manufacture a single
pair of jeans requires a stag-
gering 3,781 liters of water.
5.And every second of
every day, the equivalent of
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