Questions of social and economic class must be at the centre of our response to the climate crisis, to address the huge inequalities between the carbon footprints of the rich and poor and prevent a backlash against climate policies, the economist Thomas Piketty has said.
Regulations will be needed to outlaw goods and services that have unnecessarily high greenhouse gas emissions, such as private jets, outsized vehicles, and flights over short distances, he said in an interview with the Guardian.
Rich countries must also put in place progressive carbon taxes that take into account people’s incomes and how well they are able to reduce their emissions, as current policies usually fail to adjust for people’s real needs.
I realized part of what was unconsciously-bugging-me about it…
A commercial-pilot, who owns their own bushplane,
who serves the North,
who is self-employed,
would be banned, by this kind of law.
It’s their private jet ( turboprop ),
therefore it would be banned.
That would gut the communities they serve.
Beware of how the authority-over-others-drug “makes” people create sloppy legislation, how it “makes” people create sloppy interpretations of legislation, & enforce sloppy/abusive renditions of legislation.