Air Travel: Compressing Distance, Altering Geography

Air travel has perhaps altered our planet more than any other single thing–compressing distance, enabling global tourism, sports, and travel, enabling supply chains, and much more.  With geographer Joseph Kerski, consider the positive and negative impacts that air travel has had on our planet, from local to global scale.

Airplane at Palm Springs, California.

Air travel image–photograph by Joseph Kerski.

For more, see the book Interpreting Our World, by Joseph Kerski, available here:  https://www.amazon.com/Interpreting-Our-World-Discoveries-Revolutionized/dp/161069919X