How many are up there polluting our skies?

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)

Copyright Airports Councils International. See Fair Use Notice

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

.