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UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion.
(www.carbonbrief.org)
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Increasing airport size as a way to stimulate economic growth seems like dated thinking to me. Flights are increasingly not used for business travel as communications technology has advanced. All you're really doing is trying to maintain hub status for London which doesn't drive economic activity outside of the airport industry.
Heathrow needs a third runway as much as it needs a rollercoaster. A huge construction project, with all the emissions that brings, that paves over houses, green spaces and the M25 (on a bridge).
Finally, I guess we can see why Labour whipped against the environment bill last week.
if only there was some painfully obvious and immortal way to stimulate economic growth, like idk.. building housing and factories with public transport connecting the two..
oh right shit i forgot, that would annoy the real estate investors in london, can't do that.