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That is what's happening. When you buy a plane ticket, in many airlines, you have an option to pay extra to fly on SAF.
by kolinko 3y ago
That is what's happening. When you buy a plane ticket, in many airlines, you have an option to pay extra to fly on SAF.
- parski 3y agoWhen you buy your ticket you have an option to donate to the airline's greenwashing campaign.
- RugnirViking 3y agowouldn't be surprised if they were BOTH able to claim subsidies based on this as well, and write it off on their taxes. Triple dipping !
- PlunderBunny 3y agoYour cynicism might be warranted, but it's now always true. The airline I fly for domestic travel (Air New Zealand) has - in the past - donated some of the money from customers selecting to offset emissions, to the Native Forest Restoration Trust [0], a charity that buys strategic parcels of land, re-plants, and then maintains the land after protecting it forever for the public using the QE II trust. I don't consider that to be greenwashing - that's real and useful. 0. https://www.nfrt.org.nz https://www.nfrt.org.nz
- adolph 3y agoIndulgences became increasingly popular in the Middle Ages as a reward for displaying piety and doing good deeds . . . . With the permission of the church, indulgences also became a way for Catholic rulers to fund expensive projects, such as Crusades and cathedrals, by keeping a significant portion of the money raised from indulgences in their lands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence#Early_and_medieval_beliefs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence#Early_and_medieval_...