The cure for flygskam

People have been nibbling around the fringes of the fuel problem, but biofuel won’t cut it: it would take an area the size of Australia to grow the plants needed as feedstock for the fuel that aviation industry consumes.
Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg delivers a speech at the UN Climate Summit in New York on Sept. 23.
Qantas, the Australian airline, has just test-flown the world’s longest commercial air-route: 16,500 kilometres from New York non-stop to Sydney. There were only 60 passengers aboard the Boeing 787, all in business class, because the plane needed all the rest of the...

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