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With the big match on Tuesday, I spent Monday morning practicing in Lowell’s squash courts. But when I got to the Murr Center on Tuesday evening, I found myself in an unfamiliar environment, given the different dimensions and superior quality of the squash courts.
What scares me is that an airline ticket priced at $20 after all taxes and fees—which the Skybus website advertises will be available for at least 10 seats on every flight—makes sucker-punching the environment as easy as buying a t-shirt or a...
As our understanding of what pollution does to the environment increases, it’s becoming clear that more leisure flights are the last thing the globe needs, and the last thing a responsible college student should consider.
The sad truth is that, low-cost airlines such as Skybus are also low-conscience airlines. The cost of air travel will be paid, if not by travelers, then by the environment. America should consider a way of factoring the externalities of air travel into the cost of a ticket...
Air travel is obviously too important to the world—economically and socially—to be banned outright, but it should be priced proportionally to the havoc it wreaks on our environment.