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It's official: France bans short haul domestic flights in favour of train travel:
France has been given the green light to ban short haul domestic flights.
The European Commission has approved the move which will abolish flights between cities that are linked by a train journey of less than 2.5 hours.
[...] France is also cracking down on the use of private jets for short journeys in a bid to make transport greener and fairer for the population.
Transport minister Clément Beaune said the country could no longer tolerate the super rich using private planes while the public are making cutbacks to deal with the energy crisis and climate change.
[...] The ban on short-haul flights will be valid for three years, after which it must be reassessed by the Commission.
"[This] is a major step forward in the policy of reducing greenhouse gas emissions," transport minister Beaune said in a press release.
[...] Sarah Fayolle, Greenpeace France transport campaign manager, told Euronews that there were both "negative and positive aspects" to the European Commission's decision given that only three routes are affected.
"It's going in the right direction, but the initial measure is one that's (not very) ambitious. We must go even further," she said.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday December 26 2022, @08:44PM (3 children)
>weren't driven by wishful thinking/willful ignorance.
Do you actually know this, or just assume that academians tell the truth because... because?
The more I learn, the lower the ratio of bonafide trustable information becomes. There is still good information out there, but it is far more common to learn a trusted source was not worthy than vice versa.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday December 26 2022, @09:22PM (2 children)
Know this. And why wouldn't academicians tell the truth here? When there are problems with truth-telling, it's invariably due to conflict of interest. Here, you present no such conflict and just assert some radical doubt narrative without a reason for it.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday December 27 2022, @12:36AM (1 child)
>When there are problems with truth-telling, it's invariably due to conflict of interest.
We can start with publish or perish. Follow that up with "my grant proposal is sexier than your grant proposal" and on and on, academia is anything but perfect and the conflicts of interest can be as shallow as: my ego won't allow any other result.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday December 27 2022, @04:14AM
So?
So no actual evidence, of course. The problem with the narrative is that you still have an allegedly too low prediction rate for asteroid impacts by two orders of magnitude and somehow that's supposed to be sexy? Maybe we'll get a better narrative if we pull your other finger?