I’m not a conspiracy advocate, but reigning in air travel will be the single biggest easy effect on carbon emissions. This has been known for years.
https://theicct.org/sites/default/fi...8_20190918.pdf
“ That is 2.4% of global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use and a 32% increase over the past five years. Further, this emissions growth rate is 70% higher than assumed under cur- rent ICAO projections.”
“ If the global aviation sector were treated as a nation, it would have been the sixth-largest source of carbon di- oxide (CO2) emissions from energy consumption in 2015, emitting more than Germany (Air Transport Action Group [ATAG], 2019; Olivier, Janssens- Maenhout, Muntean, & Peters, 2016). The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations organization with author- ity over global aviation, expects CO2 emissions from international aviation to approximately triple by 2050 if cur- rent trends hold (ICAO, 2019a).
COVID lockdowns are saving the world and we’re not talking viral infections.