Blue ice is just the tip of the, errrr, blue iceberg when it comes to things airplanes dump into our skies.
You see, planes pump out a noxious cocktail of greenhouse gases which are more damaging than CO2 on its own. What's worse, their global-warming effects are multiplied because they are released so high up in the atmosphere. Every time just one person chooses to turn their back on airports and airplanes and Stays Grounded instead, they can save as much CO2 as a year's worth of heating and electricity.
So next time you travel, explore parts of the planet by actually traveling through them rather than staring down at the clouds above them. It'll tickle your sense of adventure and let you bore your friends senseless with a lifetime's supply of holiday anecdotes.
And if you're worried about missing out on the in-flight entertainment, just go on a low carbon travel adventure and take an over-sized toblerone and a portable DVD player with nothing but rom-coms on it.
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If some fly-by-night, jet-setting greenhouse gasbag taxis over and asks why you want to Stay Grounded, bring him back down to earth with these well-travelled witticisms:
- On a train I can use my pen-knife to make a cheese sandwich without getting wrestled to the floor by people in uniforms.
- Come to that, I can open the window to get fresh air without de-pressurising the train and nose-diving towards certain death.
- If I want to be packed into a metal tin with no legroom or proper oxygen supply I'll chant to get reincarnated as an anchovy.
- I'm a platinum member of the Metre-High Club. Wanna join?
- As an Arsenal fan, out of respect to the "non-Flying Dutchman" Denis Bergkamp, I always Stay Grounded.
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