“Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle,” said the famous Russian-American aviation and aircraft design pioneer Igor Sikorsky about flying. What followed was the golden era of flying where aviation advanced with significant technological breakthroughs interspersed between the two world wars and the boom of commercial air travel! However, the aviation industry’s dangerous stride has been challenged time and again by environmentalists owing to its contribution to global warming, pollution and in leaving a huge carbon footprint.
It is well known now that around 2.4% of the global CO2 emissions from the use of fossil fuels and other water vapour trails produced by aircraft have made the industry responsible for around 5% of global warming. More recently the sector received flak from the 18-year-old Swedish climate change activist and crusader Greta Thunberg at the UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid in December 2019. While speaking about rich countries pledging to reduce their carbon emissions and setting their own deadlines, she said, “This is misleading because most of these pledges do not include aviation, shipping, and imported and exported goods and consumption.”
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