As a result of the increasing number of people traveling

“As a result of the increasing number of people traveling, there is a growing demand for more flights. What problems does this have on the environment? What measures could be taken to solve the problems?”

As we know, the tourism industry is booming at a high rate. Since people want to save their time, they prefer to travel by plane as it is fast and saves time over long distances. As a result, the need for flights is growing day by day. This has a strong and negative impact on the environment. I decided to read on the Internet what ideas people offer to solve this problem.

The first thing people talk about is air pollution. Due to this, the carbon monoxide and the carbon dioxide ratios are escalating in the atmosphere. As a result, it leads to ozone layer depletion and consequently, there is no protection to the earth from the ultraviolet rays that come from the sun. To illustrate, 70% of the gases in the atmosphere are an effect of the overuse of airplanes and are contributing to global warming. Another issue of such a trend is that these space machines require a lot of raw material for their manufacturing. Thus, it wastes a significant number of natural resources of Earth. To reduce the level of this problem, people are proposing to raise the ticket tax and raise prices. And perhaps this will reduce the number of passengers as not everyone will be able to buy plane tickets and it would divert people towards the other cheap sources of traveling such as through the land transports. For instance, people would prefer going by bus rather than paying a double amount for the same, in developing countries.

I think this is a good idea, but I would only pay tax on long distances, for example from Russia to America, or from China to Italy, and so on. Or for long distances between cities in Russia, as few people want to go by train or by car for more than 2 days from one city to another. And for example, short distances, where the plane flies for example 2 hours, you can buy a train ticket with comfortable conditions or go by car or bus, but spend a little more time, and reduce air emissions from aircraft.