Conversation: A rich western businessman sips champagne as he cruises at 35,000ft and looks down at an archipelago below populated with subsistence fishers. In a few years these coastal communities will be washed away by a massive tropical storm. The intensity of this storm will have been influenced, in some part, by the carbon dioxide that pours from the aircrafts engines.
Few activities touch as many environmental nerves as flying. Some argue its an elitist behaviour that blights the lives of those unfortunate...