 100 years of flying but can we continue with all the focus on climate change and emissions? That's today's topic, the future of flying. I'm in Guayaquil, Ecuador to be home in Stockholm in the morning and then have dinner the same day on the other side of the planet. It always amazes me but it's also a growing concern because of emissions from flying. Now whenever you talk to someone from the airline industry they'll be keen to tell you that it only accounts for about 3% of global emissions and also they are investing heavily into new green technology fuel-efficient aircrafts and so on. But on the other hand in any given year only 3% of the world population is flying and the ATA expect the number of passengers to double the coming 20 years. So no matter how much new green technology the net result will be increased emissions anyway. Now the future of aviation is a big topic so much more than just sustainability. We could be focusing on commercial spaceflights but for now let's stay below 36,000 feet and focus on the impact on the environment. So there are already changes in attitudes. In Sweden we even have a word for it, flygskum. It refers to the feeling of being embarrassed and ashamed of boarding a flight because of the negative impact on the environment. So in one end global growing middle class striving for a first flight ever and in the other end the wealthy flyers who start to think twice about boarding again. Corporate cultures, corporate policies where they put limitations on flying or incentivize the employees not to fly so much or even ban it. So where are we going? In just 100 years we have gone from learning to fly, to fly faster, to fly further, to fly bigger and next we will need to learn how to fly smarter and there are innovations like ultra light materials, autonomous devices for unmanned aircrafts and this here is the all-electric commuter the aviation Alice. This one will be on the market in the next two to five years and they currently have a backlog of more than 150 orders for planes. Just like with cars electrification is cleaner and cheaper so we might very well be in for a new age of aviation but in many decades to come battery powered planes will only work for short distances like one-hour flights and Alice here is a nine-seater so we probably shouldn't think of this as replacement for traditional jets. Those 150 orders of Alice can be compared to the current volume of global air traffic with more than 100,000 takeoffs every day all year round. Airplanes carry over 10 million passengers plus 18 billion dollars worth of goods on any given day and the most recent estimates suggest that demand for air transport will increase by an average of more than 4% annually over the coming 20 years and 82% of the world population have never even been on a plane and the value of plane orders for the for the coming 30 years is three trillion dollars so don't expect the end of flying any day soon. In my mind traveling and meeting with people cross borders is necessary probably more important than ever in this era of protectionism and nationalism and flying is one of the few things we do that we can't substitute like the way we consume or what we eat what the car we drive things like but hey that's me I'm a traveler I can't imagine life without traveling if if I would have been born before airplanes I would probably been one of those sailors that went to places like this to to find a new world but what about you what do you think about flying please share your thoughts in the comments down below and like always if you want more hit that subscribe button and I'll see you in the future