[ichbinwiederda]

I understand what you are saying, but you can make the same argument for why littering should be allowed. Banning littering is also sacrifice. Very likely technical solutions alone won't cut it.

My issue with sacrifices is that they often punish the wrong people. For example, let's say there is a carbon tax on flights (very likely to happen soonish). People who travel for work and for other necessities should not incur the same penalty as tourists who travel purely for pleasure.

[goatlover]

The tourists traveling purely for pleasure are also helping the people who work in the tourist, service and entertainment industries at those destinations. For some smaller countries, that's a considerable part of their economy.

[tjansen]

There seems to be a random distribution of what's acceptable and what not. Driving an SUV? Sinner. Owning a dog? Acceptable, despite higher CO2 emissions. Getting a daily newspaper on paper? Perfectly acceptable. Eating takeout? Irresponsible waste of resources, despite a family of 4 eating at a (European) McDonalds needing less paper than needed for a newspaper.

[ichbinwiederda]

No I agree with you on that but I think my definition of what is a luxury is quite well defined.

All these fake greenies flying to India to find themselves are still going to burn in hell though.