The Fight Over Flight: what's the problem with air travel?

The now scrapped plans for a third runway at Heathrow sparked fierce debate about air travel. Anti-flying groups opposing the plans, mostly cited environmental concerns. While many are concerned about the impact airport expansion will have, others worry that restricting our freedom of movement is a backward step. Regular air travel has only recently become affordable for most people, and critics argue there is a heavy dose of snobbery in the dismissal of cheap flights. So is there more to the fight over flight than concerns about carbon emissions? Is the freedom of flight now a necessity to be defended, or a luxury we should sacrifice for the good of the planet?

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News & Politics

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• Dr Mayer Hillman
• Darren Johnson
• Peter Smith
• flight
• cheap flights
• Heathrow
• third runway
• freedom
• democracy
• social benefit
• movement
• environment
• carbon emissions
• cutting emissions
• responsibility
• planet
• catastrophe
• rationing
• mass tourism
• travel
• greens

[Blitzlevingt]

air travel is only about 2-3% of total CO2 emissions...the biggest single contributor is deforestation....more flights for people willing to chain themselves to trees in the rain forests. Now that would be a life changing experience for them and our next generations to come.