Here’s an article from a New Zealand news website called Stuff. It was originally published in the Chicago Tribune.

It’s about a trip to Sweden from the US for DNA tourism.

DNA tourism is a thing.

It turns out there’s a difference between the two published articles.

The New Zealand one has appended to the end:

This is totally like the warnings on cigarette packets and wine bottles.

It’s just a teensy-weensy bit harder to pretend it’s business as usual when the reality of your personal decisions is not hidden from view in the la-la-la-it-ain’t-happening zone of our brains.

2490 kg CO2.

This value appears to come from Air New Zealand’s carbon offset calculator.

If you use myclimate’s simulations, you actually get around 5.5 tonnes CO2.

Neither of these estimates is heart-warming.

[Photo credit: Gemma Evans and Unsplash]

[Thanks to Claire Waddington for giving me the heads-up and mentioning the link with cigarette packets]