Climate Change Special: Is Aviation's Future Electric?

The Two Thousand Feet Aviation Podcast

English - December 16, 2019 06:00 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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2019 has been the year when even the sceptics accepted the need to do something about climate change.
Among environmental activists, aviation has become a dirty word. Their figurehead, Greta Thunberg, famously chose to sail across the Atlantic, rather than fly.
But how bad is aviation's contribution to the global climate crisis? And what is the solution? Should we all be going electric?

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