{"id":266,"date":"2018-08-22T13:51:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T11:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/?p=266"},"modified":"2019-01-15T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T07:00:20","slug":"not-sure-if-environmental-taxing-air-traffic-is-so-smart-there-are-no-easy-solutions-to-complex-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Not sure if environmental taxing of air traffic is smart &#8211; seldom easy solutions to complex problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"882\" height=\"886\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Icelandair.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Icelandair.jpg 882w, https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Icelandair-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Icelandair-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Icelandair-768x771.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Icelandair-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parts of the Nordic political establishment &#8211; green environmentalists and many others across the spectrum, also many social democrats &#8211; think they have found a great tool to combat global warming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Taxing air traffic more heavily should do the trick they say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I don&#8217;t contend that this would be ineffective. Of course we could  try to cut air travel as well as other traffic exhausts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Significantly raising air ticket prices could regrettably take us back to the times when only a well-to-do elite could afford exploring the world. For the wealthy, a few hundred additional Euros would not make a big difference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> In a peripheral, far away and small country like Finland, raising obstacles for international air travel is definitely not the best of ideas. We should encourage international travel and contacts, not hinder them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Once again we see that there are no simple solutions to complex problems. Even if oncoming elections invite populist initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parts of the Nordic political establishment &#8211; green environmentalists and many others across the spectrum, also many social democrats &#8211; think they have found a great tool to combat global warming. Taxing air traffic more heavily should do the trick they say. I don&#8217;t contend that this would be ineffective. Of course we could try &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/?p=266\" class=\"more-link\">Jatka lukemista<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8221;Not sure if environmental taxing of air traffic is smart &#8211; seldom easy solutions to complex problems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-english","tag-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}