This story emerged from an unlikely source involving Glenn Beck’s recent vacation to Europe. As reported at The Blaze, while Beck was overseas he had a disturbing conversation with his travel agent. He was told, “You should see Europe now while you can.” The reason is that the United Nations has been rolling out “sustainability goals” for the travel industry, particularly when it comes to air travel. They are trying to force airlines to get to “net zero” in terms of emissions. As we recently discussed here, the technology doesn’t currently exist to achieve net zero for commercial airlines without vastly increasing the cost for travelers. So the alternative will be to simply shut down air travel for “nonessential” purposes such as tourism, at least for “the little people.”
This has already started happening in the UK. The Telegraph was warning back in February that most regional airports would be closing because of their inability to meet the operating costs imposed by new climate restrictions, among other challenges. The airport at Doncaster-Sheffield began preparing to close last September. Before long, the only major public airports remaining in operation will be Heathrow and Glasgow.
The phrase “public airports” is important in this context. Can you guess which airports aren’t closing? Those would be the private airports that serve smaller private jets and those who are wealthy enough to afford their own small planes. No worries about emissions from private jets, apparently. But the rest of you will need to travel by train or other public transportation options.
Great Britain is only a test run for this concept. If you think that the idea won’t take off among climate alarmists in the United States, you’re fooling yourself. The drumbeat has already begun on this side of the pond. Just this week, The New Yorker published an essay titled “The Case Against Travel.” Granted, it was written by a philosopher named Agnes Callard and she was arguing that travel is a selfish waste of time because it fails to “transform” the individual or add to the lives of the people living at the travel destination. But it’s also the perfect excuse for climate alarmists to demonstrate how those who travel for leisure are selfish, evil people who are contributing to the end of the world or whatever.
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I foresee Travel via ships becoming en-vogue as Airplanes do not have an Net Zero Solution in the pipeline
Environmentalist will NOT be satisfied until the world is rolled back to the 1880's
This has already started happening in the UK. The Telegraph was warning back in February that most regional airports would be closing because of their inability to meet the operating costs imposed by new climate restrictions, among other challenges. The airport at Doncaster-Sheffield began preparing to close last September. Before long, the only major public airports remaining in operation will be Heathrow and Glasgow.
The phrase “public airports” is important in this context. Can you guess which airports aren’t closing? Those would be the private airports that serve smaller private jets and those who are wealthy enough to afford their own small planes. No worries about emissions from private jets, apparently. But the rest of you will need to travel by train or other public transportation options.
Great Britain is only a test run for this concept. If you think that the idea won’t take off among climate alarmists in the United States, you’re fooling yourself. The drumbeat has already begun on this side of the pond. Just this week, The New Yorker published an essay titled “The Case Against Travel.” Granted, it was written by a philosopher named Agnes Callard and she was arguing that travel is a selfish waste of time because it fails to “transform” the individual or add to the lives of the people living at the travel destination. But it’s also the perfect excuse for climate alarmists to demonstrate how those who travel for leisure are selfish, evil people who are contributing to the end of the world or whatever.
Get ready for the war on travel. It's coming
I foresee Travel via ships becoming en-vogue as Airplanes do not have an Net Zero Solution in the pipeline
Environmentalist will NOT be satisfied until the world is rolled back to the 1880's
