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Serge Droz

@albertcardona I think two easy things that could help:
- Make it as easy to buy train tickets as it is to buy plane tickets
- stop subsidizing air travel and externalising costs: that means global CO2 taxes.

The result of the second point will be, that travelling will be much more expensive , so people should stop whining about the high cost of going on vacations.

9 May at 8:14 | Wall-to-wall | Open on infosec.exchange
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Albert Cardona

@sergedroz

Indeed, what's needed is obvious, the question here is who will convince the EU to (1) establish one such agency, (2) drop fuel subsidies for airlines, and (3) enforce carbon taxes.

9 May at 8:17 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
Serge Droz

@albertcardona I think the booking thing could be private, there are many private airline ticket booking portals. Rome2rio.com is a start.

The tax needs to be global, I think just Europe won't work because it would create a competitive disadvantage. So maybe a G20 initiative, similar to the global corporate tax. I don't like the G20, because it has no democratic legitimacy, but I don't see another way of introducing this.

Interesting fact: A while ago UBS argued for a CO2 tax, saying it's the most efficient mechanism to curb emissions

@albertcardona I think the booking thing could be private, there are many private airline ticket booking portals. Rome2rio.com is a start.

The tax needs to be global, I think just Europe won't work because it would create a competitive disadvantage. So maybe a G20 initiative, similar to the global corporate tax. I don't like the G20, because it has no democratic legitimacy, but I don't see another way of introducing this.

9 May at 8:31 | Open on infosec.exchange
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