The Poverty Tours (1964)<br /> https://texasarchive.org/2010_00054

Sort of stunning that this film about the poverty tours starts out focused on an airplane and airline travel which would have been a terrific extravagance at the time.

From the intermediate linked blog post:

Using a derivative metric of the Global Warming Potential (100), the GWP, aviation emissions are currently warming the climate at approximately three times the rate of that associated with CO2 emissions alone.

pp. 35-36 of EASA report for European Commission, (2020). Updated analysis of the non-CO2 climate impacts of aviation and potential policy measures pursuant to the EU Emissions Trading System Directive Article 30(4). https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:7bc666c9-2d9c-11eb-b27b-01aa75ed71a1.0001.02/DOC_1&format=PDF

CNN, B. M. H. (n.d.). Holiday travel heats up as the Omicron situation unfolds. CNN. Retrieved January 16, 2022, from https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/holiday-travel-omicron-2021/index.html

United Airlines CEO on vaccine requirements for workers: “Mandates work.” (n.d.). Retrieved October 10, 2021, from https://www.msnbc.com/stephanie-ruhle/watch/united-airlines-ceo-on-vaccine-requirements-for-workers-mandates-work-122889285617?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

United Air CEO Says 98.5% of U.S. Employees Have Been Vaccinated. (2021, September 27). Bloomberg.Com. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-27/united-air-ceo-says-98-5-of-u-s-employees-have-been-vaccinated

US to lift Covid travel ban for vaccinated passengers from UK and most of EU | US immigration | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved September 21, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/20/us-travel-ban-lifted-uk-eu-flights-allowed-vaccinated-latest-covid-restrictions

Singh, R. (2021, August 25). Delta Air Lines to add $200 monthly health insurance charge for unvaccinated staff. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/delta-add-200-monthly-health-insurance-charge-unvaccinated-staff-2021-08-25/

the Guardian. “A Victim of Its Own Success: How Taiwan Failed to Plan for a Major Covid Outbreak,” June 7, 2021. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/07/a-victim-of-its-own-success-how-taiwan-failed-to-plan-for-a-major-covid-outbreak.

Katz, B. (2021, April 13). Fake Covid-19 Certificates Hit Airlines, Which Now Have to Police Them. Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/fake-covid-19-certificates-hit-airlines-which-now-have-to-police-them-11618330621

Curious to learn more about this.

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