The easiest way to cut your carbon emissions from travel is simply to travel less
GRETA THUNBERG, a 16-year-old Swedish campaigner for action against climate change, will soon visit Britain in order to set off on a high-speed, zero-emissions sailboat for a United Nations conference in New York. She has done much to publicise Sweden’s movement, which encourages people to travel on trains instead of planes to reduce carbon emissions.
Ms Thunberg herself shuns air travel and travels by train as much as she can. She plans to go to New York by boat to save the estimated 1.8 tonnes of carbon dioxide produced per economy-class passenger on a transatlantic return flight. It is true that replacing some plane rides with a journey on an electric train can cut emissions. Eurostar, an operator of express trains through the Channel Tunnel, estimates that taking the train from London to Paris saves more than 90% of the carbon emissions per economy-class passenger produced by flying. That is because France generates over half of its electricity from renewable sources or nuclear power plants, and Britain over half.
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