Is the environment a good reason to stop traveling around the world?

For me, it is. <br><br>I live in Japan and fly to Miami every year to see my husband's family or my husband flies to Japan to see my family. We have lived in Miami for 3 years and in Japan for 2 years. Our round-trip flights from Tokyo to Miami have been anywhere from $800-$1600 USD. And we fly once or twice a year.<br><br>The carbon emissions from our round-trip flights from Tokyo to Miami are 2.02 tons of CO2. (According to the ICAO carbon emissions calculator.)<br><br>It takes 8.53 years of growing one tree to offset 1 ton of CO2 emissions. So basically, we need to plant 16 trees each year or 2-3 trees every 2 months. And let's be honest. We're not going to plant a tree every couple of months. We live in an apartment in a busy city. We don't even have a balcony.<br><br>I just had my first child and it is becoming more expensive to fly around the world with a baby. His first flight from Tokyo to Miami was only $230 USD but it was still a lot of work and a bit stressful to fly alone with an infant. <br><br>But we just received an offer to work and live in China for one year and I was so excited thinking about all of the places we could visit: Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Bali. And then I started calculating our carbon footprint and it just didn't feel worth it. <br><br>We would have to fly from Beijing to Tokyo (my home country) and Beijing to Miami (my husband's home country) every 2-3 months to see our family. That's a lot of flights. And a lot of CO2 emissions. (The flight from Beijing to Tokyo is 1.3 tons of CO2 each way and from Beijing to Miami it's 2.2 tons of CO2 each way.) We would have to plant 11 trees every 2-3 months. That's impossible.<br><br>I would have loved to have seen more of the world but now that I have a child, I feel like we really need to stop flying. I know there are a lot of other factors that emit much more CO2 than just our flights but it's a start. And it's our choice.