Unpopular opinion: people in the tech industry fly too much.
There are wide-sweeping policy changes we could make here, similar to what they’re proposing in the UK. “Each citizen would be allowed one tax-free flight per year but would pay progressively higher taxes on each additional flight taken.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/25/1-of-english-residents-take-one-fifth-of-overseas-flights-survey-shows …
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Is there any evidence such a measure would actually change things, though? Sounds like more of the same "but personal responsibility!" FTA: "... the people responsible for most of the problem ..." - 559,800 people on planes certainly didn't cause global warming
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Another way to do it would be to charge the airline industry for all their externalities. That would be the true “free market” approach. And then, there’s no “personal responsibility” angle.
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