From:            laura gibbons
To:                Commission-Public-Records
Subject:           [EXTERNAL] Testimony for the 7/28 Port Commission regular meeting
Date:              Sunday, July 26, 2020 5:10:52 PM

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Commissioners,
I am Laura Gibbons, a Seattle resident, and a volunteer member of the Aviation Team of 350 Seattle, a
group that works for climate justice.
My family is in the east and Midwest. I would love to have sustainable air travel so that I could visit them
without damaging the climate. Recently the concept of sustainable airplane fuel has risen to the forefront
again. While this would be a wonderful thing to have, sustainable fuel, I need to call your attention to why
it is currently unfeasible.
The only way to scale up biofuels in the next decade at least would be to import palm or soy oil, and
these crops are key drivers of deforestation and the resulting environmental destruction, the net impact
actually being an increase in carbon emissions. There is also the issue of asking people in other countries
to change their land use and all the social and political upheaval that causes, just so we can use
airplanes.
Unfortunately for me and for the Port, for the foreseeable future, the only climate-preserving solution is
reducing aviation.
Sincerely,
Laura Gibbons