Air traffic is increasingly leading to more noise, pollution and airport construction. One reason for this is the growth in low cost passengers'flights, often to holiday destinations. Some people say that governments should try to reduce air traffic by taxing it more heavily. Do you agree or disagree ?

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As our civilization grows, humans develop more advanced means of transportation, and the latest transportation means are the ones that involve flying, the machines that take us to the sky:
airplanes
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. Since we have reached that point, we have become so fond of flying that we want to make more of it.
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,
air
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traffic
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is increasing, and coming with it are its problems:
noise
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, pollution, and the construction of more and more airports.
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leads to people thinking that
government
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the government
should try to reduce
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traffic
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by taxing it more heavily. It may work, but in my opinion, you cannot solve the problems
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traffic
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causes by restricting it, but you must resolve them directly.
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, we have to find ways to solve the
noise
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problem.
Noise
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from aeroplanes is usually caused by their massive size and speed, generated when they tear through the
air
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, what’s more, some of the
noise
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is caused by their powerful engines. We can solve
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by developing better plane designs. You may say
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is impossible as the planes are too big not to make
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noise but
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noise, but
I say we can reduce the
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it make to a minimum.
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it is not possible for current technology, it may be in the future. One way to develop the technology is by researching the properties of the owls. As we have known, owls are amazing birds of prey which create almost no sound when they fly, their flying is so quiet that birds way smaller than
them
people in general
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make much more
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.
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, about pollution. Pollution is one of the most troublesome problems most countries face today, not only because of
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traffic
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, but
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because of other industries. For
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traffic
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, the pollution often comes from the burning of the fuel.
Airplanes
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, like other vehicles, burn petroleum-based fuel to generate energy, and the by-product of the burning contains carbon dioxide, a destructive greenhouse gas. To solve
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, we have to develop new types of fuels, ones that are eco-friendly.
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, we should keep an eye out on the technology that allows safe use of burning hydrogen and oxygen, as the final product of that process is literally water, the liquid that we all love. In a nutshell, I think in order to solve the problems caused by
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traffic
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, you should not restrict the
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traffic
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itself, but try to solve the problems directly
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. And the most simple way to solve the problems is relying on science to develop new technologies to better the
air
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industry.
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