I recently blogged about our impending move to Canada, and the environmental cost of flying.
In a proposed plan that has triggered fury in the US, airline passengers would pay up to £27 extra for a return ticket to cover the environmental damage caused by their flights, under European Commission proposals to address climate change. The legislation (which will be published next month) would require all flights arriving or departing from European Union airports to buy permits to cover their carbon dioxide emissions.
Not that I want to pay more for flights, but why do people think they can continue to damage the environment without paying for some remediation or offset?
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