A flying tax would damage the economy, says BAA

...Not as muchas widespread drought and flooding brought on by climate change.
Grrrrrr. Short-term thinking and greed.

To be fair this is what was said

a tax on the aviation industry would not have the desired effect on the environment but would cause inconvenience to many people by pricing them out of aeroplanes.

. But the point is that we can't, climate-wise, afford to have so many flights happening. How else are we going to stop people flying so much if not by price? Anyhow, their preferred option is emissions trading, which i also favour,

We think the beauty of emissions trading is that it targets the emissions rather than trying to make a futile attempt at pricing people out of air travel. It would be generating tax income without any environmental benefit.

Hmmmmm. So where are they getting the permits from .... ?Somewhere along the line, someone is going to end up paying more, surely. Or offsetting their air travel by buying more permits to run their car. Or something like that. this is intended to be a zero sum game. I thought. Am I missing something here? [Probably, but what?]

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