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France calls for minimum price on European flights (techxplore.com)
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[โ€“] -5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

without looking it up I guess there are more commercial flights than flights with private jets. would you also tax flights of private planes that are not jets?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago*

    You're both right. The stuff that the rich do is a lot worse per person, but most emissions don't come from people who are rich by first world standards.

    E.g. in Germany poorest 99% of the country are still responsible for about 91% of the emissions, the poorest 90% for 71% and the the poorest 50% for 27% Link in German.

    So yeah, the carbon emissions are a great argument to increase taxes on the rich, but that doesn't change that everyone will have to make some changes with their way of life if we want to avoid a climate catastrophe.

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