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But it’s one of the worst polluters
It really isn't. More Kerosene is burnt in lamps and cook stoves in rural Africa and Asia than in the global aviation industry. Moreover, airlines have a capitalistic incentive to reduce carbon emissions already, since fuel is one of the largest costs they bare and the only one easily reducable.
Aviation is a tiny fraction of global travel emissions. It's mostly road vehicles. Aviation is 11% of transportation which is 30% of global emissions. It's a tiny fraction, considered.
I think that might be because there's a lot of lamps and stoves in Africa and Asia, rather than anything to do with aviation
Yeah but it illustrates that while the airline industry is held up to a lot of scrutiny for carbon emissions they are much less yet equally as polluting sectors that are much simpler to affect change that probably should get more attention.