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I think aviation is pretty well-suited to carbon taxes/offsets. There are only a few major players and it would be very easy to enforce. Also I think the market

I think aviation is pretty well-suited to carbon taxes/offsets. There are only a few major players and it would be very easy to enforce. Also I think the market would rather easily bear a 30% increase in flight costs

julianlam 7y ago
> Also I think the market would rather easily bear a 30% increase in flight costs Was that sarcasm? Because air travel has been a race to the bottom from what I've seen
- bdamm 7y ago
  The government has always defined the bottom (above physics), and they can certainly boost the bottom up by 30%. Remember when pretty much everyone took the Greyhound?
- tomjen3 7y ago
  Sure, but that doesn't mean we can't pay its actual cost. I would be for that, as long as every last cent was used ofset the CO2 in the most effective way possible. If used in any other way, forget it.
dogma1138 7y ago
The UK is an island, if you crank up airfare by 30% if would have a huge impact on the economy.
- adrianN 7y ago
  You know what else will have a huge impact on the economy? Catastrophic climate change.