95% OF THE WORLD'S TRANSPORTATION ENERGY STILL COMES FROM FOSSIL FUELS, ACCOUNTING FOR ROUGHLY ONE QUARTER OF THE WORLD'S GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.
Rethinking our transportation footprint could help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 10%, decreasing air pollution and reducing habitat fragmentation.
map sources: Roads: World Roads, Esri | Visualizing the human footprint, Cooper Thomas. | Flights: OpenFlights.org (commercial flights) | Visualizing the human footprint, Cooper Thomas; Global Flight Paths, Michael Markieta / ARUP. | Ocean Shipping: Shipping density (commercial). A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems, showing relative density (in color) against a black background. Scale: 1 km. B.S. Halpern (T. Hengl; D. Groll) / Wikimedia Commons.
GLOBAL TRANSPORTATION CARBON EMISSIONS
TRANSPORTATION CONSUMES NEAR 60% OF THE WORLD'S OIL.
AND DEMAND IS ANTICIPATED TO GROW 2.5% ANNUALLY - FASTER THAN ANY OTHER SECTOR OF THE WORLD ECONOMY.
Source: Lee, Mike. How Bad Are Bananas? the Carbon Footprint of Everything. Vancouver, BC: Greystone, 2011. Print. www.earthisland.org.
ANNUAL TRANSPORTATION CO2 EMISSIONS
THE POLLUTANTS IN VEHICLE EMISSIONS ARE KNOWN TO DAMAGE LUNG TISSUE, AND CAN LEAD TO AND AGGRAVATE RESPIRATORY DISEASES, SUCH AS ASTHMA.
In many urban areas, motor vehicles are the single largest contributor to ground level ozone which causes coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath, and can bring on permanent lung damage.
REDUCE YOUR TRANSIT FOOTPRINT
Drive Less, Drive Efficiently
Fly Less
Buy Local Goods
