Does Climate Change Mean You Should Fly Less? Yeah, Maybe

Published: Oct. 30, 2018, 4:31 p.m.

This story originally appeared on Slate and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Two weeks ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a dire report that made crystal clear that we have about a decade to stop catastrophic levels of climate change. The report caught fire for another extremely near deadline: It suggests that if we don\u2019t manage to dramatically shift carbon emissions, we\u2019ll start feeling the brunt of the effects as soon as 2040.