Why is taxing private jets considered to be "ideological" when we know private jets emit multiples more carbon dioxide per passenger than commercial flights and that their use is growing at an alarming rate.
The policy is based on hard evidence and should be in every party's policy if they are serious about tackling climate change.
phys.org/news/2024-11-private-…
Private jet carbon emissions soar 46%: Study
The carbon footprint from private jet travel grew 46 percent between 2019 and 2023 and will keep rising unless the ultra-luxury industry is regulated, according to new research published Thursday.Science X (Phys.org)
Jim Daly
in reply to Ciarán Ferrie • • •Taxing wealthy people is great for raising revenue but does little to change their behaviour. They can easily absorb extra costs.
Restricting their behaviour is the only way. Permitting executive jet movements only between 10am and noon at a particular airport for example. You make it such that using commercial services is simply more convenient.
See also, banning wank panzers from 50km/h zones.
Ciarán Ferrie
in reply to Jim Daly • • •ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘
in reply to Ciarán Ferrie • • •FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘 • • •@anne_twain
Yes, exactly. Any kind of attack on rich people for hoarding too much money is "class warfare" or "ideological" or "irrational" or "envy" or...
Whereas attacking poor people for being poor is "telling it like it is", "tough love", "motivation for self-improvement" etc... 🤮
Dźwiedziu
in reply to FediThing 🏳️🌈 • • •@FediThing
This is very deliberate. It makes a false dichotomy that the ruling class is described as “rational” while the opposition is “emotional”.
And this is an insidious thought-terminating cliché on many levels.
@anne_twain @ccferrie
FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to Dźwiedziu • • •This of course also happens in discussions about other kinds of inequality such as gender or racial discrimination.
Women have historically been painted as hysterical, black people as dangerous radicals, gay people as child molesters etc.
It's always the powerful depicted as wise, while those who stand up for the powerless are implied to be misguided dangerous fools.