With the recent bankruptcy filings of six airlines (ATA, Oasis Hong
Kong, Aloha, Skybus, Frontier and Champion) in the past two weeks, the
issues of climate change and peak oil dominate media reporting. Local
journalists are
calling transportation planners and policy-makers to task,
suggesting that their focus should not be committing more resources to
infrastructure developments that support the airline industry as it
exists today. Air travel has been subsidized by government, but
environmental
realities can no longer be ignored.[
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Nope, the name of this post is not a misspelling. I mean warning! I
wonder…when does a ignoring a dire warning become denial? When does
someone hearing, “You are drinking too much” become an alcoholic? As
someone who has had my fair share of after work drinking and after
dinner toasts, I can tell you that you never know you are in denial
when you are in denial. If enough people suggest there may be a
problem, then the only way to know if there is a problem is to assume
they are right. If they are, then there is still time to recover. If
they aren’t, then a little abstinence never hurt anyone. At the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali last week, Canadian Prime
Minister Stephen Harper took a stance along the lines of “We will if
they will” that is tantamount to an immature parent saying “I won’t
lose my temper if you’ll stop crying.”[
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