Posted on 10/01/2016 5:21:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
People in Switzerland travel by plane twice as much as their neighbors and should cut down on flights to help the environment, according to a spokesperson for the Switzerland-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Pierrette Rey was speaking at a summit of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal, Canada, where representatives of 191 countries gathered to agree an initiative aimed at controlling emissions and carbon offsetting in the airline industry.
So far 63 countries have opted to join the plan, WWF said.
But according to Rey, WWF fears the voluntary agreement won’t do enough to protect the environment and a better solution would be to cut down the number of flights, newspaper Le Matin reported on Friday. …
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People living in the desert also drink too damn much water.
Nonsense.
The Davos crowd should be jailed. To save the planet.
The Davos crowd should be jailed. To save the planet.
The benefits of global nosy nellies. What a great future awaits, eh, citizen?
You know who else flies too much?
Folks like Leonardo Di Caprio, AlGore, Chelsea Clinton, Alec Baldwin etc. and the rest of the Limousine Leftist Global Warming Fools who all fly their big private planes (and they don’t even share the ride with each other) to go to Global Warming Propaganda Fest to lecture us peasants about our cars, our lawn mowers, our air conditioners and flying commercial packed like sardines in a can.
How did she get to the Summit? I’m unaware of any horse and buggy tracks from Switzerland to Montreal..
Everyone who believes CO2 is a dangerous pollutant should be restricted from flying, “to save the planet”.
The freedom to travel is one of the biggest freedoms. This is all about curtailing freedom.
I wonder how flying compares in fuel efficiency to driving, assuming the same number of people travel?
Restriction on travel is of course a restriction on freedom. But inherent in the global warming scam is the concept of limiting freedom through rationing. The government will decide how much you “need.” Energy, housing, food, education, and yes, information. Forget property and firearms, they won’t be rationed. They will be banned.
People who are subject to rationing are not free.
Whats great about this is being Swiss, they can’t feel or act one way or the other about it.
Who can blame them? They make a great, small business turboprop, the Pilatus PC-12.
How soon before they say that people breathe too much?
I am all for it. Everyone should be forced to answer this question before they are allowed to board a flight. Statistics can then be collected about how many people really believe that CO2 is a “dangerous pollutant”.
Or maybe Gustave Whitehead (Connecticut's air pioneer) will be labeled as a criminal too...
It’s worse than that. They helped create the madness and now we read they are building fancy schmancy underground bunkers to hide from the inevitable results.
NB: “People in Switzerland”, not “Swiss people”. It’s all the elitists with Swiss residences flying to and from their actual countries.
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