Thread by @AukeHoekstra

The aviation industry is pretending to work on emission reduction but in fact its 'behind closed doors' lobbyist dominated ICAO organisation and the Corsia program seem only intend on cooking the books.

https://twitter.com/stekkerauto/status/1316279033005592579

Also, not mentioned by prof. Helge Peukert is the idea that your flight doesn't emit CO2 because the airline planted trees. Unfortunately that is something we need to do anyway and the amount of trees you can plant and its effect is limited.

So we are left with an industry that only want to grow, knowing that this means more CO2 emissions, and is trying every trick in the book to avoid improving the situation. This needs to change!

Let's start by having them pay taxes just like everybody else. Esp. tax kerosine!

We are in the midst a biomass discussion in the Netherlands. Well, instead of burning biomass in coal fired power plants we should use it in aviation where easy alternatives like wind/solar are not available. Synfuels are of course even better. And yes, this requires innovation.

In summary: let's end this cheap and transparent charade that pretends we can keep flying as usual while combating climate change.

Through a combination of taxes (hopefully inducing less flying) and green fuels we could make actual progress. Time to act.