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You seem to get downvoted but I’m totally unimpressed by this news for the same reason. If we want a sustainable future, the first step is banning private jets, and the second one is to restrict and reduce all air travel. That would have a huge impact on people but I think it’s the moral thing to do.

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I get the sentiment, and there's definitely a lot of work to be done and actions to be taken by the right stakeholders.

But just to put things in perspective; all of aviation contributes up to only 2.5% of all global emissions (both direct and indirect).

I know, yet I think the conclusion to draw here is that those other polluters are really terrible, not that the aviation is something to ignore because it’s a relatively small part of the pie.

The simplest thing to do is to rapidly increase the price of carbon-emitting fuels by coordinated global taxation of it.

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