Airplanes kill

Consumer warnings on car and flight adverts have been suggested today by Labour lovies the IPPR.

Nice idea. If we aren’t aloud to smoke because of the harm it does to second parties, then we shouldn’t be allowed to unnecessarily and unconsciously produce green house gases - because of the harm to second parties.

In the example of the flight adverts, the cigarette box style warning will give notice of the flight’s impact on climate change, suggest less damaging alternatives and compare the flight's emissions to an average person's yearly carbon footprint.

Of course it’s all pie in the sky unless we offer meaningful alternatives and sort out our train system first.

Calculate the emission figures for your flight to the Costa del Sol this summer.