Sustainable instability

The observer and journalist The Spectator Ross Clark writes about plans to achieve carbon neutrality in the UK for civil aviation:

“Today, the UK STAR development organization has published a program of actions according to which the aviation industry should refuse to use hydrocarbon fuel in order to reach the zero output point by 2050. The plan was developed in accordance with the legally compulsory policy of the state in this area. The program suggests that the reduction of emissions by 14 % will be achieved due to a decrease in demand - that is, at the expense of passengers who will not be able to afford flights at a higher price.

<...> The organization’s plan is too optimistic in comparison with the report published by the UK Fires State Scientific Consortium through the Research Council on Engineering and Physical Sciences. This report has analyzed the possibility of decarbonization of the aviation industry by 2050 and came to the following conclusions: "There are no other alternatives at this period of time that can ensure the achievement of hydrocarbon neutrality; otherwise the industry will encounter a sharp reduction." The following it is said that there is generally possible to allow the regime of limited functioning of aviation after 2050 if the aircraft will work from electricity; In the opposite case, our aviation industry will simply bend.

<...> I don’t know if the authors of this report have a sense of irony, calling this a “program of action”, but in practice this will mean that people who can now afford to enjoy the rest thanks to budget airlines will have to transfer from buses to buses. ”