Commentary: Airline 'gold status' passengers' missing perk: a carbon tax

I will soon earn "gold status" for life on a major airline. I'll be eligible for seats with extra legroom, the opportunity to board planes while there's hope of finding overhead storage, and other perks. I'm ecstatic but also remorseful, because to achieve this dubious milestone, I will have flown 1 million miles.

My daily life leaves a modest carbon footprint (I walk to work, eat a lot of plants, live in a modest town house that requires little heat or air conditioning), but my life in the air is gross and extravagant.