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TH60073E Sustainable Aviation Assignment
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University Of West London
Added on 2020-05-11
TH60073E Sustainable Aviation Assignment
University Of West London
Added on 2020-05-11
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Running head: Sustainable Aviation 1Sustainable Aviation
Sustainable Aviation 2IntroductionFlight is considered as highly fundamental since its introduction to the world, it has given fast and rapid transportation system to tourism areas and additionally encouraged world exchange and enhanced the personal satisfaction and work-life quality of people in countless ways. As air transport moves more than a total of 2.4 billion travelers every year, there can be analyzed a regularly increasing interest for taking flights and the continuously increasing emission of carbonis posing a great threat upon the ecological world. In present time there is a continuously increasing scarcity of the fossil fuels and the rapid emission of the gases from the burning of these fossil fuels resulting in change in the greenhouse gases atmospheric concentration, setting off the development of condensation trails as well as up surging the cirrus cloudiness, which would add to environmental change (Vasigh, Tacker and Fleming, 2013). And thus, there is an increasing demand for identifying a number of alternative ways such as taking effective use of innovative aircraft technologies, safe engines, new guidelines and use of biofuel so that there canbe a decrease in the dependency upon the usage of crude oil. Once these alternative ways are recognized, the primary objective is to implement these alternative ways for reducing overall impact upon the environment (Upham, Maughan and Raper, 2003). The key purpose of this paper is to understand that in what all ways aviation industry is hampering the sustainability of the environment and what all reasons are there which have made the term “sustainable aviation” as an oxymoron. Sustainable Aviation: An OxymoronFrom the economical point of view, there are number of advantages and benefits of aviation industry and the continuously rising business of airlines. But on the other hand, from the environment perspective, there are various threatening and severe challenges faced by the ecological world which has developed a negative and destructive image for the aviation industry in the minds of masses (Lück and Gross, 2013). There are various factors and reasons that are responsible for the unsustainable aspect of aviation industry. Out of all, the first and the primary reason is the emission of greenhouse gases, these gases are highly responsible for the unsustainability of the environment and there can be traced its presence in the environment in a good amount (Daley, 2010). There are five gases which fall under the category of main and
Sustainable Aviation 3primary greenhouse gases i.e. ozone (O3), water (H2O), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and the carbon dioxide (CO2). The effect of greenhouse gases takes place gases when the gases present in the environment such as carbon dioxide traps heat reflects upon the surface of the earth (Abeyratne, 2009). However, the continuously increasing us of airlines and rapidly developing aviation industry results in increased burning of fossil fuels which as a result turns out to have an upsurge level of concentrations of these gases in the air and thus enhancing the impact of these greenhouse gases. And thus increase in the temperature of the global surface cause changes in the climate i.e. known as global warming (Sanbag, 2013).Similar to the emission of severe greenhouse gases, the aviation industry has a major role in causing other severe impacts too. The engine of the aircrafts produce high amount of carbon dioxide because of the consumption of jet-fuel and combustion of fossil fuel that alters the concentration of the GHGs in the atmosphere. It causes the creation of condensation trails while up surging the cirrus cloudiness which leads to climate modification. In spite of the decreased amount of emission buy taking use of innovative and improved engines in the airplanes that havea less consumption of the fossil fuel still have a contribution of a total of two percent of the total carbon dioxide through human induction (McManners, 2012). On an average, the air flights produced a total of 628,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide on a yearly basis with an overall estimation of building up of around 1300 more airports by the year 2050 (Bower and Kroo, 2008). There are also forecasting that the number of aircrafts will be doubled in the commercial aircraft fleet which is expected a total of three-fold increase in the international air travel. All these emissions of greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide will give rose to the various environmental concerns in respect with the future of the air flights, impact on the quality of the air and the reliability (ATAG, 2014). There will also be a big contribution of the aviation industry in the extreme weather conditions and rising number of events in the coming time frameas a result of rising threat of global warming. There are various natural disasters including droughts, hurricanes and floods which are the result of the global warming and emission of gasesbecause of the increasing business of aviation industry (SERA, 2006). The most key factor or noteworthy impact of aviation industry on the environment t is noise pollution which is the biggest reason of calling sustainable aviation as an oxymoron. The noise footprints left because of the growing business of the aviation industry has made it difficult for
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