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So have they permitted these commercial/industrial flights while banning short-haul passenger flights for wealthy/business? Or are these industrial flights me

So have they permitted these commercial/industrial flights while banning short-haul passenger flights for wealthy/business? Or are these industrial flights merely being used as cover to justify permitting rich people to fly themselves around short distances while the common man is forbidden? It's not as though legislatures are powerless to distinguish between these. If they haven't, it's because they've chosen not to.

lxgr 3y ago
> It's not as though legislatures are powerless to distinguish between these. If they haven't, it's because they've chosen not to. Or because they've chosen to spend their limited resources on other, higher-impact policy changes first. Private jets account for something like 1% of carbon emissions of aviation. That's not nothing, but making it a top agenda item seems like populism more than anything.
- George83728 3y ago
  > Or because they've chosen to spend their limited resources You mean their limited supply of ink and office paper? Or their... limited political capital to make laws which inconvenience the rich?