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Fly and Be Damned: What Now for Aviation and Climate Change?

Autor Peter McManners
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 feb 2012
Peter McManners gets underneath the well-known facts about the unsustainable nature of the aviation industry and argues for fundamental change to our travelling habits. The first book to transcend the emotional debate between the entrenched positions of those who are either for, or against, flying, this groundbreaking work argues that aviation is stuck in a stalemate between misguided policy and a growing imperative to deal with its environmental impact and that there is now little possibility that the transition to sustainable flying can be a smooth evolution.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781848139749
ISBN-10: 1848139748
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface
Introduction
Part 1 Fly and be Damned
1.Addicted to Flying
2.Climate Change
3.Projected Expansion of Capacity

Part 2 Aviation Today
4.Living the Dream
5.Progress Out of Crisis
6.The Chicago Convention
7.Globalization and Aviation
8.The Low-Cost Revolution
9.Breaking the Mould
10.Too Little, Too Late

Part 3 The Future of Aviation
11.Green Air Vehicles
12.The Third Golden Age
13.Unleash the Entrepreneurs
14.Short Haul to Trains
15. Global Aviation Policy Framework

Conclusion

Recenzii

McManners could have titled his important new book 'Fly and Be Sustainable', with its bold and provocative vision for transforming the aviation industry from a laggard of the fossil fuel age to a linchpin industry of the future. Building on the industry's rich entrepreneurial tradition, his proposals could very well usher in a third golden age for the industry and provide a crucial step for a sustainable future. Whether this book disturbs, enlightens, angers or provokes into action, it provides a much-needed jumpstart to the debate on sustainability and deserves a wide audience.
For those who live by air travel, McManners sets out a tough agenda for a sustainable aviation industry.
All human societies have had to face challenges of one sort or another. But today's challenges are perhaps greater than any faced in the whole of recorded history. Failing to rise to the climate challenge has very serious consequences as to avoid irreversible climate chaos we must hold average global temperatures to no more than 2C above pre-industrial levels, which requires immediate, rapid and widespread action. We long-industrialised nations have a historic obligation to set a lead. Although many of us are already doing a great deal, there remains however a curious phenomenon of "airflight carbon blindness" where individuals who meticulously change light bulbs, use the bus and recycle, still find it just too easy to hop on an cheap air flight. Similarly national and even international frameworks often ignore flying. We urgently need to talk about flying and this book certainly gets the conversation started!