Sunday I'm off to Hamburg to do a diagnostic of a Cement Company. I'm leading a team of 6 people for the next 3-4 weeks in Germany this will entail me flying back and forth from Paris a few times much to the detriment of our planet. It seems strange that despite Hamburg having a population of 1.8 million my client still needs to ask a non-German speaking Frenchman to come and their diagnostic. Throughout the world the number of (supposedly intelligent) graduates has been going up every year. The world is now producing 200 million graduates each year and we have the technology (at no cost) to undertake video conferences with participants from all over the world. Of course its helpful to have met somebody at least once physically before interacting with them through a screen but I believe that a big share of the business travel we do is unnecessary and wasteful. If we really wanted to develop local sourcing there is a simple way: massively increasing the cost of airline fuel.
Taking a plane (even in economy) is a luxury which destroys our environment we should make sure that the price of a ticket includes a high enough carbon tax to completely offset the environmental damage. So for a transatlantic flight you would have to pay into a fund that would buy 40m2 of amazonian rain forest to be preserved.
Taking a plane (even in economy) is a luxury which destroys our environment we should make sure that the price of a ticket includes a high enough carbon tax to completely offset the environmental damage. So for a transatlantic flight you would have to pay into a fund that would buy 40m2 of amazonian rain forest to be preserved.
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