AN airline is attempting to embarrass its passengers into paying compensation for the climate change emissions of their flights by getting cabin crews to sell “carbon offsets” from the duty-free trolley.

James Tallack, Which? transport researcher, said: “We would not want people to be made to feel uncomfortable. Offsetting is essentially an individual’s choice and these schemes are not yet regulated, which might undermine confidence in them.”

It wouldn’t embarrass me – chances are you’d never see the passengers sat within earshot or the trolley dolly ever again. I’d just say (angrily if they woke me up to try to sell it to me!) that I didn’t believe in global warming and wasn’t interested in paying any more than I’d already done to fly.

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