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Inside the airline industry's meltdown: Coronavirus has hit few sectors harder than air travel, wiping out tens of thousands of jobs and uncountable billions in revenue

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    Let them die. The severity of climate change needs us to re-think just how important it is to keep a fleet of constantly moving jets in the sky. All the unemployed people? Create a special climate...

    Let them die. The severity of climate change needs us to re-think just how important it is to keep a fleet of constantly moving jets in the sky.

    All the unemployed people? Create a special climate change government agency, paying them to plant trees under the guidance of foresters. Not just paying random shell companies to 'plant trees' at bare minimum costs.

    It’s even doubtful if these projects result in a permanent reduction of carbon, he said. “You hear, ‘Tree planting, tree planting, tree planting’, but only a certain percentage of these trees end up living past a year.” He called offsets “modern-day indulgences”. We pay for our sins to be forgiven, but also for the licence to sin again.

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