‘Make public transport free for the elderly, children and minimum wage earners – Rotterdam is already doing it’
Grocer with ov
Free public transport tickets for people with lower incomes in Amsterdam (The parole, Dec. 14). Up to eight free tickets per household. And those tickets are then valid for half an hour. What a grocer! Look at Rotterdam, where public transport is simply free for the elderly, minimum wage earners and children.
Bram Wondergem, Amsterdam
Sustainable flying does not exist
Schiphol will not shrink, I read The parole from 14 Dec. No, not because of the enormous pollution from air traffic, but out of fear that the noise limits will be limited. Does the minister have butter on his head? Does he ignore the conclusion of the international climate panel IPCC? They are very disturbing. The climate is changing at an unprecedented rate and humans are the cause of this. Flying kills. The report is a ‘code red’ warning, according to UN chief António Guterres.
Aircraft produce more earthquakes, causing the earth to warm up three times faster than previously thought and then the minister is talking about noise! If you look at the facts about flying and climate change, there is only one conclusion: we need to fly a lot less to keep the planet habitable.
Unfortunately, zero-emission aviation is a long way off and probably unattainable. Sustainable flying does not exist. It is right that Greenpeace wants there to be an obstacle to flights, especially over short distances in the EU. Everything should be aimed at curbing flying.
Also, stop posting misleading and pernicious advertising such as fly ads to sunny places with the call ‘To the sun with …’ In fact, these ads called for an environmental offense to be broken. If there are more facts about flying and climate change, there is only one conclusion: we need to fly a lot less to keep the planet habitable.
Hans Increase, Amsterdam
Gas from the Wadden Sea
During the current energy crisis, with thousands of people who don’t dare to turn the heating higher than 15 degrees, with food banks overflowing with customers, schoolchildren who have to go to school without breakfast, bakers who have to close because of gas costs and so on, it is incomprehensible to me that a group of people is concerned about the one and a half millimeters that the soil would sink if gas were to be extracted again under the Wadden Sea.
You have to be very much a climate fundamentalist to ignore the billions in gas revenues, with the result that you will eventually leave thousands of compatriots out in the cold! New gas extraction at, for example, Ternaard in Friesland could cover the entire gas consumption of the Netherlands for about six months.
Crazy environmental madness with anti-social consequences!
Jan Zuidervaart, Amsterdam