I think Piketty's views as presented in this article are slightly off the mark. One of my favourite climate assessments, the UK "Absolute Zero" report from 2019 goes further, saying that flying generally has to stop unless it's really necessary, and it suggests that all UK airports be closed except Heathrow. Effectively this means the active destruction of the international tourism industry, as well as discretionary aviation. So you need to expand your definition of who is rich, to include a suburbanite who likes to fly to Bali every couple of years, or even the four or five flights I've been on to Queensland for various holidays in my lifetime.pipbarber wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 8:23 am Thomas Piketty has some ideas.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... as-piketty
Regulations will be needed to outlaw goods and services that have unnecessarily high greenhouse gas emissions, such as private jets, outsized vehicles, and flights over short distances...
Private jets are obscene, but if you are going to talk about winning people over, they are low-hanging fruit. You could ban them now, but for it to be meaningful at the same time you would also have to announce a ban on all discretionary aviation to be phased in soon after.
