JET ZERO AND THE POLITICS OF THE TECHNOFIX

In this two-part essay, Gareth Dale and Josh Moos investigate the UK government’s plans for ‘Jet Zero’ – expanding the aviation industry at the same time as lowering emissions. To research the piece, Dale and Moos picked through the government’s Jet Zero documents and interviewed aviation industry insiders. “We found that of the three key terms – jet, zero, and consultation – two are misleading to the point of outright deception,” they write. In part one, Dale and Moos unravel the government’s proposed technofixes: electric and hydrogen ...

 

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