Stop being misleading.

The typical nonstop flight from New York to Los Angeles sends more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per passenger into the air. In other words, one flight can emit more pollutants than the average driver produces commuting each year, by a long shot.

The average commute causes 4,881 pounds of CO2 equivalent emissions, you were comparing one persons commute to a whole plane load of travelers.

You should have said something like taking that flight you cause the emission of as much pollutants as the average commuter cause in 10 weeks of commuting. The round trip is almost a bad a half a year of commuting.

Driving from New York to LA is 1,637 pounds CO2E, if two people share the car trip the emissions are less than air travel but still huge. Air Travel is not the problem right now and until we have transportation modes with lower emissions, any travel is bad.

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