They said the 50% drop in passenger numbers in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic should be an opportunity to make the aviation industry fairer and more sustainable. This could be done by putting green conditions on the huge bailouts governments were giving the industry, as had happened in France.
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Only 11% of the world’s population took a flight in 2018 and 4% flew abroad. US air passengers have by far the biggest carbon footprint among rich countries. Its aviation emissions are bigger than the next 10 countries combined, including the UK, Japan, Germany and Australia, the study reports.
Yanks build some fucking railways jesus christ
The top 1 percent of the world by wealth and income is like middle class American or European. So yeah no shit, I'm sure a huge percentage of this is just regular business travel.
Middle class is not the same thing as middle income, middle class means rich enough to own investments, but still not being rich enough to entirely subsist on the purchased labor of others.
