IMPACT Forum Highlights: Jason Burnett on Aviation’s Biggest Opportunity

What if aviation’s biggest challenge is also its biggest opportunity?

At the opening of the IMPACT Aviation Forum, Jason Burnett (Chair – Board of Trustees, @The David and Lucile Packard Foundation)  argued that aviation is not a problem to eliminate, but a profound human good worth preserving and expanding. The challenge is finding ways to keep the benefits while taking responsibility for the industry’s environmental impact. 

One observation stood out: 

Whoever cracks that clean molecule problem at scale, genuinely, durably and economically, will have built one of the most valuable companies on this planet.

🎥 Highlights below.

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Jason Burnett, The Lucile and David Packard Foundation