Carbon trading
If carbon trading were done properly, it would be an acceptable, market-driven solution to the problem of carbon emission (if we accept that humanity is a significant cause of climate change).
That the European Commission is proposing carbon trading be extended to aviation is something that I can accept to some extent.
But doesn't it say all you need to know that the environMENTALISTS are opposed to it? This solution, one must assume, is not sufficiently left-wing and regressive enough for them. If they have caveats such as the vapur trails and other-gas emmissions, fine, but they must at least welcome half-steps in the 'right' direction?
Politicians evangelise environmentalism as a religion. Fortunately the solutions do not have to be of the type politicians on the left (Cameron, Campbell etc.) would like.
That the European Commission is proposing carbon trading be extended to aviation is something that I can accept to some extent.
But doesn't it say all you need to know that the environMENTALISTS are opposed to it? This solution, one must assume, is not sufficiently left-wing and regressive enough for them. If they have caveats such as the vapur trails and other-gas emmissions, fine, but they must at least welcome half-steps in the 'right' direction?
Politicians evangelise environmentalism as a religion. Fortunately the solutions do not have to be of the type politicians on the left (Cameron, Campbell etc.) would like.