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Old 12th Apr 2021, 18:48
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Also agreed. I like to think of myself as someone who takes the climate change thing reasonably seriously, but the topic has been adopted by the green peace contingent as a way of targeting the elite and the establishment, totally missing the point that most domestic travellers aren’t in that category.

Im also surprised that France of all countries is trying to enforce change by blanket ban rather than taxation or similar. It doesn’t seem very Libertarian?

Having said that, if it is indeed the case that only a select few passengers will be affected then this is perhaps just a symbolic change to make it look like the government is “tackling the issue” regardless of the fact it will barely scratch their emissions per capita.
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