As the article says, "air travel accounts for about 2.5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions". It is responsible for ~5% of climate change, according to the IPCC. If we build a lot of nuclear power plants, we can still eat steak and fly all we want. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/climate/air-travel-emissions.html …
The thrust of the article (the second point) is that it's a regulatory problem. France gets 71% of its power from nuclear. We have the technology.
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The thrust of the article is that it's a funding problem, and the "regulatory problem" is that tons more public money is needed
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Regulatory reform will "...will only 'slow, not reverse, the losses.'"
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