It’s annoying already and it makes people anxious, makes it seems like travelers are some type of enemies of society people, some scapegoat to blame for the problems of society even if it’s not true.
and we see the result of this already, taxes imposed on flights, aversion to travelers, what next? Only 1 flight every 3 years allowed?
Travelers make the economy works, no travelers no development for a big part of the economy and especially for destinations and countries where tourism is the main driver for the economy, and the pollution is just asmall part of the total.
We saw already what happened on 2020-2023, companies failing one after another, unemployment and depression, 2 times a bigger crisis than on 2008.
And we also saw how bad it was to not be able to travel to other countries and be confined on our small region.
No one enjoys having the negative consequences of their actions pointed out to them but that doesn’t mean the truth, that while aviation is the cause of around 2.5 per cent of global CO2 emissions it is responsible for a significantly larger share of warming, (between 4-6 per cent) thanks to other emissions at altitude.
Obviously private jet flights are broadly frowned on by most people but the social licence for mass flying, (still only a small percentage of global population) is also being eroded as more people everywhere feel the sting of our collapsing climate.
As for aviation and the economy, frankly, tourism is in for a very rough time as weather gets more erratic. Covid taught us we need to have more resilient systems. The warming climate will bring change too, like it or not. Being “annoyed” won’t make any of this go away.
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