- cross-posted to:
- climate@slrpnk.net
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/4426053
While it’s easy to dismiss this as a stunt, history suggests stunts are necessary to shift mindset. This flight alone solves nothing, but it will hopefully move the needle.
Only because we refuse to tax carbon, and increasingly subsidize fossil fuels.
Clean alternatives will be much more competitive once carbon is properly taxed, and we stop subsidizing polluting industries.
It is worse for jet fuel. The EU doesn’t tax jet fuel at all. The USA does tax jet fuel, but only at 28¢ a gallon.