How many are up there polluting our skies?
Posted by msrb on March 22, 2008
There’s a fundamental systemic problem. It’s called exponential growth economy and it’s degrading, polluting, tearing apart, destroying and otherwise killing off everything in its domain. In the absence of a ‘radical’ change to the economic system our world is rapidly falling apart.
Related Link: World Problems: The Root Cause Matrix
Worldwide Airport Traffic Summary [YE December 2007]
Passengers : 4,479,822,865 (Up 6.4% YoY)
Air Freight (Mt) : 80,342,643 (Up 2.5% YoY)
Aircraft Movements : 68,636,424 (Up 2.4% YoY)
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Note: Total passengers are rounded off to the nearest 10,000
Source: Airports Councils International
“Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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