Comments on: target cars http://no-mans-blog.com/2007/08/22/go-for-the-cars/ Asi Sharabi's Private Selections Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John http://no-mans-blog.com/2007/08/22/go-for-the-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-5770 John Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:13:46 +0000 http://no-mans-blog.com/2007/08/go-for-the-cars/#comment-5770 nice post and i agree with most things, especially that people need to use their cars a lot less (especially when alone!). what i think is missing is the fact that the extreme rise in aviation emissions reflects an ongoing change in people's travel habits. people go on more and longer flights than ever before and what needs to be done at this point is not really to change people's behaviour but to try stop this change from continuing to happen. the challenge as regards aviation is thus to make people not make more and/or longer flights despite constantly falling flight prices, i.e. to avoid a change in behaviour. i believe this is worth targeting before flights become even more common than they are today, i.e. before everyone has developed the habit of flying abroad (however, I'm a bit afraid that it already is an addictive habit among many people and it will be tough to struggle with that force of habit... taxing flights more is perhaps be the most logical thing to do?) nice post and i agree with most things, especially that people need to use their cars a lot less (especially when alone!).

what i think is missing is the fact that the extreme rise in aviation emissions reflects an ongoing change in people’s travel habits. people go on more and longer flights than ever before and what needs to be done at this point is not really to change people’s behaviour but to try stop this change from continuing to happen.

the challenge as regards aviation is thus to make people not make more and/or longer flights despite constantly falling flight prices, i.e. to avoid a change in behaviour. i believe this is worth targeting before flights become even more common than they are today, i.e. before everyone has developed the habit of flying abroad (however, I’m a bit afraid that it already is an addictive habit among many people and it will be tough to struggle with that force of habit… taxing flights more is perhaps be the most logical thing to do?)

]]> By: sheira http://no-mans-blog.com/2007/08/22/go-for-the-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-5701 sheira Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:36:14 +0000 http://no-mans-blog.com/2007/08/go-for-the-cars/#comment-5701 totally agree that the public is not ready now to campaign on aviation, but (and im being controversial here) will they ever be?. people now tend to live far away from family and home (like me and all the other immigrants in the world) and I cant imagine them not flying. also, once people opened their appetite for travelling, its going to be nearlly impossible to get them ro close it. so there is also a need to be realistic. I think the energy for aviation campagining should be chanelled to other directions: bigger planes that can carry more passangers, greener fuel, heavy taxing etc. totally agree that the public is not ready now to campaign on aviation, but (and im being controversial here) will they ever be?. people now tend to live far away from family and home (like me and all the other immigrants in the world) and I cant imagine them not flying. also, once people opened their appetite for travelling, its going to be nearlly impossible to get them ro close it. so there is also a need to be realistic.
I think the energy for aviation campagining should be chanelled to other directions: bigger planes that can carry more passangers, greener fuel, heavy taxing etc.

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