Give up cheap flights, holidaymakers told.
In the UK The Guardian is reporting Give up cheap flights, holidaymakers told.
Alarmed at what it sees as the government’s wilful disregard of the effects of cheap air travel on global warming, the cross-party environmental audit committee will tomorrow lay out a range of proposals to get people to pay for some of the damage they do.
It may take time and, given the tangle of international agreements that govern flights overseas, it is far more likely to mean the end of bargain fares to Manchester than to Moscow (£118 this week, if you know where to look). But the aim is to shift at least some passengers from air travel to high-speed rail links. The MPs also want changes on Britain’s roads, with increases in road tax, targeted road tolls and more congestion charges.
Take more trains and less planes, and however you travel, please offset your CO2 emissions. — DS
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