How deeply disinformation about aviation has penetrated society became clear in an RTL4 news broadcast on Sunday, December 1.
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The report is produced by T&E, an activist group. So I expected the report to be unreliable and/or very misleading. I have therefore read it with great interest, and that expectation is fulfilled.
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Activist groups block more than just highways. They generate a lot of media attention, but with their associated dogmatic positions they also block possible solutions for the -indeed- very real problems. See the shutdown of the last nuclear power plants in Germany, which -according to the Washington Post- leads to more than 20 million tons of extra CO2-emissions per year. Five times as much as the emissions from all business jets in all of Europe. Then again, actions against business jets are of course also mainly about perceptions and media attention. And it is easy. You don’t have to spend time looking for facts and doing analyses.
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