Flying is Bad

From Adele Horin, The Sydney Morning Herald, as quoted in The Week:

One round-trip flight from Sydney to London emits 9 tons of carbon dioxide per passenger—the same amount of pollution the average person produces in a full year of “eating, driving, and heating and cooling their home.”

http://www.theweekdaily.com/article/index/88076/3/3/Staying_put_for_the_good_of_the_planet