finely calibrated uselessness

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"Governments left the issue instead to the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization, a body whose apparent purpose is not to make progress but to impede it. Dominated by the industry it was supposed to regulate, its work is an exercise in finely calibrated uselessness: it makes just enough noise to create the impression that something’s being done, without actually changing anything."
- George Monbiot, 'Mumbo-Jumbo Jets', monbiot.com, 20 Jan 2016, http://www.monbiot.com/2016/01/20/mumbo-jumbo-jets/

January 24, 2016