The aviation industry and climate change

Here is the aviation industry blasting the hell out of the EU ETS while it ignores a greater danger looming up behind it: climate change.  Increased turbulence will put off customers, more extreme weather events will increase the cost of operations, changing prevailing winds will mean runways need to be realigned and higher sea levels will make coastal airports unviable.  But more effort is put into fighting off the EU ETS than actually attending to the risks which it intends to mitigate…

 

 

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