Wealthy jet-setters are hastening the climate crisis, so let's make them pay | Martha Gill

A progressive carbon tax on flying would protect the poor far more than simply abandoning green policiesIs net zero a "luxury belief"? A strange assumption seems to have become knitted into the climate debate: that the burden of cutting carbon emissions will - must, inevitably - fall hardest on the poor.This is the logic by which climate activists are sometimes deemed snobby, classist virtue-signallers - and the principle on which, earlier this year, Rishi Sunak signalled a tactical retreat on green policies. "It cannot be right for Westminster to impose such significant costs on working people," the prime minister said. Because of course, this is the group such policies would hurt the most. Continue reading...