Originally Posted by
midnight cruiser
Public health professionals are only concerned with their own remit - public health/deaths, and care not a jot for the colossal destruction involved in achieving their aims. Therein lies the role for world leaders, but thus far, they are in the thrall to their health advisors, and to their scared electorate.
You hit the nail on the head. If you add the fact the vast majority of our senior politicians in the UK support deep short term cuts in CO2 emissions, this explains why they are sitting on their hands while the air transport industry implodes.