Scottish Greens on Nostr: Private jets are up to 14 times more polluting than commercial planes per passenger, ...
Private jets are up to 14 times more polluting than commercial planes per passenger, and 50 times more polluting than trains.
Yet every year 90,000 private jets take off in the UK.
A £1000 per head tax could deter private jet use and raise hundreds of millions to tackle the climate crisis.
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