4 minutes agoSwiss alert to give up flights to preserve the environment
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Swiss residents are frequent flight travelers. They travel by plane three times more often than the European average, according to the World World Worldwide Fund (WWF), writes lenews.com. Surveyors has asked 1,000 people aged 16-74 in both parts of Switzerland for ways of travelling. 27 percent of them have [...]
Surveyors has asked 1,000 people aged 16-74 in both parts of Switzerland for ways of travelling. 27 percent have said that they have avoided flying for environmental reasons.
When respondents were asked: “would change future travel ways to preserve the” environment, 32 percent of them said: “Yes, I would travel less (with a plane), and eight percent of them said “Yes, I would no longer travel (with a plane)”.
Meanwhile, the number of travelers to Geneva Airport was smaller for four of the five months of this year, compared to the same period in 2018. And this may be a sign that travelers are changing their travel patterns.
In Sweden, the number of people using flights has declined. There was no increase in 2018, and early in 2019 a five - percent decline was recorded, compared with the same period last year, followed by albinfo.ch.
WWF offers advice to reduce travel through flights, such as choosing a train when people travel to Europe and avoiding flights when you will spend less than a week at the destination you have landed.
