Will we in the future have a quota of limited flights to use throughout our existence?
Jean-Marc Jancovici can imagine him well.
The founder of the consulting firm Carbone 4 and the think-tank The Shift Project, specializing in energy transition issues, regularly mentions the impasse of the "green plane", i.e. the absence of technical solutions on the scale for decarbonize air travel in the future.
We then come to this challenge of limiting the growth of air traffic, which has been increasing sharply since 1950, and which was expected to double again in the next twenty years before the Covid-19 occurs.
To counter this growth, we can in particular act on the price of tickets, via a tax on kerosene, often requested by NGOs, or by establishing a floor price, as Austria did in the summer of 2020, in fixing this minimum at 40 euros.
In an interview with
Le Parisien
in October, then at the microphone of France Inter at the end of November, Jean-Marc Jancovici said he was in favor of "a communist system", in which, whether you were rich or poor, you would each be entitled to only a very limited number of flights to use during its existence.
And you? Would you be in favor of establishing a quota of plane flights for everyone and for their whole life? Would it be fairer than measures on ticket prices? How many flights should each be granted? How could the measure be made acceptable? Do you think it is ultimately inevitable? Have you already started to reduce your use of the plane?
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