But shouldn't it be? There's a problem and you have a limited amount of money to spend fixing it. Every dollar you spend by not flying is a dollar you can't s

But shouldn't it be? There's a problem and you have a limited amount of money to spend fixing it. Every dollar you spend by not flying is a dollar you can't spend on something else. I understand the appeal of "We have to do something and this is something so let's do it" but that never works in practice. what if flying people around in produces 10 Trillion dollars a year in value. That money can be used to build a 1,000 solar farms that will will reduce the amount of CO2 twice as much as just stopping all those flights? Or what if the politics of stopping people from flying are mind mindbogglingly toxic. They'll vote for and support people who will happily build coal plant upon coal plant just so that they can keep flying. But for that they'd happily pay the taxes and/or pay the capital to build a million wind turbines. Look, I realize this is just a dumb thread. It won't change a mind one jot but maybe someone here will make an argument that - pro or con - will make the end result come about or not come about a bit faster.