It is very arrogant of the human race to think that by stopping flying and cutting emissions we can change the natural evolution of the earth.
They reckon between 6000-5500BC the land link with the European mainland disappeared. To put this in context sea levels were a lot, lot lower then which means there was a lot more ice in the polar caps as we were coming out of the iceage.
600 years ago there was snow on the mountains of the UK years round.
Therefore at the moment we are in a warming up period and have been for thousands of years. For countries such as Bangladesh this inevitably means that they will be flooded, this was always going to happen and there isn't a jot that mankind can do to prevent this.
We maybe increasing the rate of change but all we are increasing is the inevitable.
What annoys me is that aviation is an easy target. There are alternatives to electricity generation. Most car journeys are un-necessary etc yet we are going after an easy target.
Go to renewables on electricity generation etc, tax the use of the motor car more after all it would make people more healthy by getting off their backsides. But until there is an alternative for Jet A1 why are we pikcing on an industry that underpins the world economy, employs around 3 million people in this country and in the grand scheme of things is a very small percentage of overall emissions.
We should be looking for renewables for the other, larger polluters. What is happening is that there is a puritanical leftie group who are very vocal and very good at getting their message across.