Report: Space Tourism Will Accelerate Climate Change
Image Credit: Virgin Three years ago I called Virgin’s LEED certified spaceport a contradiction in terms , noting that Tourists and passengers will drive into the middle of the desert, where Richard Branson and others will literally burn rubber, mixed with nitrous oxide, to fire people into space for seven minutes at $ 200,000 a pop. And guess what? It is designed to be LEED Platinum. To be “both sustainable and sensitive to its surroundings.” What an oxymoronic gesture. Next thing you know we will have LEED certified coal fir… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Report: Space Tourism Will Accelerate Climate Change
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