#2904: aviation, pollution

Mon, 18 Nov 2024, last check: Fri, 28 Mar 2025. Post history

• Private aviation, primarily based in the USA, which holds 68% of aircraft, has seen a 46% increase in CO2 emissions from 2019 to 2023 due to 18 million flights for leisure, cultural, and political events.
  https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs43247-024-01775-z
• The industrial plants in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, have polluted the air and land of historically black communities for over a century and have yet to address the environmental injustice.
  https://www.propublica.org/article/bluestone-jim-justice-north-birmingham

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