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One of the bad effects of travel is on the environment - the carbon loads are high for planes and cars. In an interesting post, EcoGeek shows the difference in carbon loads for a plane, car and train ride from Toulouse to Paris (data from the French Rail System) -

• Train: 57.90 Euros; 5 hours, 13 minutes; 9 kg CO₂
• Plane: 222.20 Euros; 1 hour, 30 minutes; 180 kg CO₂
• Car: 201.47 Euros; 6 hours, 46 minutes; 272 kg CO₂

Obviously the Train is better, interestingly riding a Car is actually worse than an Airplane (I always assumed the opposite).

More and more companies allow you to offset your carbon loads, and hopefully as people get more aware the travel industry will get better at this. We in TripTouch encourage you to take less trips, but longer ones - it’s the short ones that are the worst in this regard (getting there is half the fun, but it’s also releases heaps of CO2…).

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