Un’Europa senza jet privati
https://www.thenewfederalist.eu/a-europe-without-private-jets?lang=fr
di Potential-Focus3211
Un’Europa senza jet privati
https://www.thenewfederalist.eu/a-europe-without-private-jets?lang=fr
di Potential-Focus3211
23 commenti
Absolutely not, bullshit like this is why the EU is slowly going to shit.
Sounds good. Which one suffer the ultra-rich? Oh, ok, yeah make them suffer
>Much of the frustration from climate actions and policies arises from the gap between the behavioural changes asked from the general population and the refusal for any behavioural change from the side of political and economic elites. While Europeans are being asked to give up low-cost flights, billionaires are flying around to their luxury vacation homes across Europe. A private jet ban will be in this sense different. Instead of being perceived as out-of-touch moralism, it would be seen as a demand for basic solidarity. Advocating for this demand could have therefore an energizing instead of alienating effect, as seen in the recent protest wave around Italy following the Bezos wedding.
Well…sounds reasonable.
As we say in Germany Symbolpolitik. A measure that makes nobody’s life better, has no impact on climate change but that is tremendously effective in mobilizing those who believe that all of our problems come from climate change or from the rich. A good example of why we are going downwards in the EU.
Why the fuck do we have economists if we don’t listen to them? Tax the shit out of carbon ffs
Oh course the politicians won’t ban themselves from having private jets…
Will be funny when the politicians realize “oh, we need to make an exemption for politicians” 🙂
Truth is that private jet usage is mostly business purpose and not billionaires on their way to a luxury vacation home.
No one needs private jets and luxury yachts. Just ban them it‘s fine and 99,9% of the people are not affected.
https://english.elpais.com/climate/2025-06-27/each-private-jet-emits-as-much-in-a-year-as-177-cars-study-finds.html
well, do we have data on how much CO2 emissions are we saving by this ban? have there been investigations on what such a ban will imply, for example impact on families working in that industry, what this millionaires will take instead etc etc?
I am all in for symbolic political acts to show we are taking this seriously, i just don’t want this to be an excuse to stop there.
Grow up, drop the jealousy. You’ll be a happier person in the end
Emissions related to private aviation are what? Less than one half of one thousand of all emissions? No, this is neomarxist shit, not rational climate policy. There are ways to increase the degree to which you reduce externalities if you wish, without banning stuff just because you have a problem with people who are rich.
Lmao.
Europe’s anti-prosperity mindset rears its envious head once again.
Don’t ban them, just force them to fuel their flights with e-SAF (the most expensive kind of the synthetic fuels) and you create a demand that will allow the production capacity to expand and the technology to mature, until it eventually reaches passenger flights too. This is an opportunity for Europe to establish a clear technological advantage.
The ultra-rich are price-insensitive and they might even appreciate the opportunity for greenwashing.
Banning private jets is the lazy thing to do.
Europe on the path towards communism. This time it will work.
Tax obscene wealth…
are we expecting high profile people to just use public transit?
So instead of becaming a world leader in Synthetic CO2 neutral fuels (Fischer-Tropsch fuels) is EU going to ban planes and cars. Even Porsche’s plant for producing e-fuel is in Chile rather than Europe.
Today these fuels are at 50 USD/liter. The expectation is to lower the cost down to around 3 USD/liter by 2030 (in 5 years).
Why not to require private jets to use this type of fuel? The CEOs would be pushed heavily into bringing the cost down to feed their private Jet habit.
why stop at that?
a europe without private cars? without private homes? without private descretion of what and where to eat and what to wear and how often? without private money to buy what we want and privilege stamps for absolute essentials instead, if you’re socially deemed fit to receive such privileges? sounds promising, doesn’t it? we’ll safe the planet by being a shining example, won’t we?! worked out well in the past. every fucking time.
“Oh no but if we ban private jets then all the rich people will leave”
How deep does this toilet called EU get?
This has nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with class warfare. Banning private jet travel will do nothing to solve global warming, as long as we are building coal fire power plants and questioning a world without nuclear power.
2.5% of emmissions come from air transport, 4% if you believe the impact of water condensation…etc. Of that, private jets make up a fraction. This is Greta at her worst, likely sprinkled in with some Soros like agitation. Let’s find something else to focus our energy on. This just looks and feels like jealousy and envy.
Just make them pay their fair amount of tax, without loopholes. They will have less money then for flying around