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Ask Slashdot: Would Rationing Air Travel Work To Cut Emissions?

Tuesday May 21, 2019. 02:45 AM , from Slashdot
united_notions writes: Last year, The Guardian ran an opinion article arguing that everyone should be allocated 'an air mile allowance -- say enough for one long-haul return flight a year, or three short-haul flights. If you don't want to use your allowance, you could sell it off in a government-regulated online marketplace. If you're keen to do a holiday a month, you'll have to buy your allowance from someone else.' But despite continuing concerns over the environmental harm caused by air travel, this idea has not found much subsequent support. Instead, serious air time is given to meager plans like weighing passengers. Do Slashdotters think rationing would work? Could serious coordinated inter-governmental restrictions on air travel change our behavior? Might it just spur corporations into finishing up carbon-neutral passenger planes?

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