Manchester Airport to Close by 2029

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Get one of these new long lorries, stick a Taxi sign on top, charge people a reasonable fare to take them to the airport when you are going. Jobs a winner! You use a bigger lorry so carbon footprint is smaller, you get a few quid towards fuel, ;), and more people get to the airport with less cars on the road causing congestion.

As for the younger generation blaming us 'oldies' for the climate crisis!
We were the generation that got our fish and chips in old newspapers, drank our lemonade from glass bottles and then got our deposit back when we took it back to the shop. we bought our sweets in little paper bags/cones. Nothing was wrapped in plastic/clingfilm/shrinkwrap. All glass was infinitely recyclable, and we just put it in the dustbin, which would then be sorted at the depot. We used shopping baskets, hessian bags and paper carrier bags to carry our groceries home. We walked to most places that were within walking distance or got public transport if going further afield. Yes, we burned fossil fuels, because at the time we believed we had an inexhaustible supply and the by-products, soot and ashes, were recycled in the garden or the chimney sweep would sell the soot to farmers for fertiliser or to manufacturing companies for use in things like wool dye.

I think youngsters should cover a specialised era in their history lessons entitles, 'Where we youngsters got it wrong'.
As I read that post the music of Dvorak's 9th floated gently across my mind's eye. :) The halcyon days of flying are well n' truly a bygone age.
 
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This article shows a timescale of actions needed to achieve net zero. The loony "FIRES" group of government advisors want all British airports, except Heathrow, Glasgow and Belfast, to close by 2029.


Isn't that your dream - no foreign travel.
WEF are truly going to **** us over.
Trump and Putin are doing that.
 
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What paragraph? They aren't government advisors, the article doesn't say they are. @andy11 lied about that.

"UK FIRES is a research programme aiming to reveal and stimulate industrial growth in the UK compatible with a rapid transition to zero emissions"

"UK Fires is a collaboration between the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Nottingham, Bath and Imperial College London. We are funded by EPSRC. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is the main funding body for engineering and physical sciences research in the UK. By investing and postgraduate training, we are building the knowledge and skills needed to address the scientific and technological challenges facing the nation."
 
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You replied as per the above quote to me saying this:

I suppose society largely accepts whatever environment it lives/functions in

I'm afraid you most likely do Andy, you might not like to, but you do. Unless you don't use public infrastructure, services and so on?
 
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