Air travel latest target in climate change fight.(WORLD)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: August 17, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Mark Rice-Oxley Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

London -- For the hundreds of climate-change activists who've camped out by Heathrow Airport this week, there is just one way to reduce aircrafts' carbon footprint: stop flying.

"Aviation is a luxury we can live without," says a protester named Merrick. Air travel, he says, is booming, multiplying greenhouse gases just as the climate-change imperative starts to bite. "It has to be scaled right back."

As protesters plan an unspecified action this Sunday, aircraft engineers, scientists, and climate ...

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