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

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.

One reason I moved to Ireland 20 years ago was that there are no nuclear power plants.

Even if we ignore the environmental impact of the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents - and the taxpayer's cost to try to fix it - nuclear power is nonsensical from a purely economical point of view.

The part that nuclear power companies never really address is the long term cost of keeping the nuclear waste safe. If you have a half life of 50,000 years, waiting till the radiation of waste is reduced to a quarter takes 100,000 years. If you consider hiring even a small staff, to keep an eye on things, and make sure there are no leaks, 100,000 years is a long time. The expectation of nuclear power companies is that tax payers cover the long term cost, instead of doing a reasonable price calculation from the start.

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...