Are you concerned about the destruction of the natural world and climate change?

Tax on everything increases the cost of it.... in theory, be it a service or product... if every business, say car dealerships said they didn’t want to pay tax on car sales, gyms because it health and fitness the same... suddenly every business / industry is paying SFA and its the man and woman on the street again who bare the brunt of keeping this country going.

governments are unwilling to stand up to big business and corporations, that won’t change, their friends and family members and backers are of that ilk.

I was always of the opinion that the no matter what happened the human race would be able to do something about it even if we were a little late to the party. But corona has shown that won't happen. If anything serious ever happens we are fucked.

Every company goes on about being carbon neutral or net zero - which is bs. Basically it is we are gonna keep doing what we are doing but we are gonna plant a load of trees. I believe BP alone would need to plant an area 4 times the size of England.

Methane is an even bigger problem than CO2 - can you imagine the uproar if they were to massively cut cattle herds? People throwing tantrums because they couldn't have meat with every meal?

Then you have the people who think we can't affect the climate? The human race destroys the world's carbon syncs and pumps millions of tons of co2 and methane into the atmosphere... but no we couldn't possibly have any affect on it.

I don't think we have any chance of effectively combating climate change. Countries/people are too selfish.

We would never react to it like we did Covid where companies and countries essentially went on a war footing.

Essentially we need less economic activity and a smaller population to start tackling climate change. I don't see how that will happen.

If I really want to get depressed about it, all I need to do is going into Smyths Toy Store at Christmas and see how much plastic garbage from China is being bought for the children to provide maybe 2/3 hours of enjoyment if that.

Life isn't fair though...

There is no possible way to fend off climate change, the only way you can fend off climate change is to completely destroy the planet into nothingness. Why would any-one want to fend off climate change in the first place? without it there would be no life on this planet. Climate change is the most natural thing to happen on any livable planet. The climate has been changing drastically even before human beings existed, let it do its natural thing, we will adapt as usual as we always have through the ages.

What ? I’m not saying do nothing. The aviation industry is doing much to pollute less, billions have been invested by the likes of Boeing and airbus to design more fuel efficient and greener aircraft, from an airline perspective routes flown are planned with fuel efficiency as a priority ok for cost but also the environment.... massive investments from airlines into airside vehicles for ground handling... electric or hybrid...

if only as many other industries were of the same, attitude, mindset and determination... but always an easy target... the big bad airplanes, never mind taking a look at every industrial estate here, business who can much easily do more but do little.

The Greens here are only clapping the rollout of a handful of charging points for cars only affordable or practical for elites just like themselves.

Famines are a certainty. Their impact will be determined by how fast we modernise agriculture and encourage resilience. Fortunately crop yields have been increasing year after the year globally.

Not unless it's a war situation, the chances of famine in the Northern hemisphere is highly unlikely ,the same for drought , wealthy countries can grow everything under glass if they have to and desalination plants can supply water,

Carbon has to be taken out of the air. Simple as that,if there is much chance of reversing the damage to our climate. Anyway its all well and good saying habitats need to be restored etc. I don't see many around the world rushing to do it.

Population is a big problem. Difficult to know what to do about that. Unless no couple is allowed have more then 2 or 3 kids, after which they have to be sterilised. Perhaps a bit too draconian for many though.

Assuming you are employed, I vote to eliminate your source of employment, for the greater good, of course.

What is your ‘credible ‘ source or expertise on the airline industry not needing to be as big as it is ? Well ? :)

id beg to differ..

Approximate World Population :

2010 : 6.956 billion

2020 : 7.794 billion

goods as well as people need to travel... therefore in a decade that has seen the planet gain and extra almost 800 million inhabitants, due to better healthcare and a plethora of other reasons, they and the services and goods that they need , that we need , needs a way to get around this planet.

I'm more concerned about extinctions and bio diversity destruction than about climate change.

I do realise the latter affects the former, but I'm more concerned about conspicuous consumption and environmental pollution.

Do I think climate change is anthropogenic? Not entirely. I think we've exaggerated a cyclical phenomenon and I think its already past too late to change our contribution to it, which is to say, what will happen will happen. I do think we need to make our energy and agriculture far more sustainable to cope in the future though. And also to reduce global dependence on oil generally, which is a tool of mass inequality and ransom.

As some coasts flood, some people will move. As some deserts expand, other areas will become wet and fertile.

The human population will likely peak in 2100 or so anyway because of societal and technological advancements, but we'll all be dead. If humanity drops to 6 billion or 5 billion in another century after that, so be it, a better and more enlightened civilisation will live in better harmony with the rest of the natural world and the planet itself.

Id be far more worried about the ongoing safety of nuclear armed countries, because only 2 or 3 of them seem to be entirely responsible.

we probably need holidays... yes.

business meetings ? Some yes, some no... lots of companies are cutting down on meetings I know my last job was zooming, but training still traveling.

express and non express global freight and cargo is growing... there are more dedicated cargo flights across this planet now then ever before. Pre covid anyway.

Ireland an island nation is reliant on goods that when require importing and exporting quickly or even just efficiently are all using air options..a lot is things that are essential like medical products and devices. at a guesstimate there is probably daily about average air ‘capacity’ of about 350-400 tonnes of cargo on both passenger and cargo airlines out of Dublin alone...