What percentage of 51 billion tons are we talki...

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What percentage of 51 billion tons are we talking about? A European commission recently announced they’re reducing air travel emissions by 17 million tons a year. As a number without context, it sounds like a lot. But if you do the math, you find out that’s going to reduce yearly global emissions by just 0.03 percent.