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Ban Private Jets
Ban Private Jets
We know who’s responsible for the climate crisis: rich people. Nowhere is this clearer than in aviation, with billionaires’ private jets ravaging the planet. We need to ban them now.
·jacobinmag.com·
Ban Private Jets
Our Lethal Air | by Jonathan Mingle
Our Lethal Air | by Jonathan Mingle
Nearly half a century after the Clean Air Act instituted the world’s most stringent emissions controls, the problem of air pollution is far from being solved in the US or anywhere else. Pollution has proved much more persistent, and exposure to it much more damaging, than anyone expected. Today, 91 percent of people worldwide live in areas where air pollution levels exceed the World Health Organization’s recommended limits. The result is a global health emergency, as three new books reveal in sobering detail.
·www.nybooks.com·
Our Lethal Air | by Jonathan Mingle