Should frequent flyer schemes still exist when the climate is in crisis? | The Independent
Should I Stop Flying? It’s a Difficult Decision to Make. (outsideonline.com)
Would you stop flying to fight climate change? (sfchronicle.com)
Curbing Contrails: A Climate Solution in the Skies – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Airlines could ditch flights to Australia to meet future emissions promises, parliament told | Airline emissions | The Guardian (and other “island” destinations) – plans for carbon pricing will eliminate air travel to these destinations – except for the wealthy elite – over the coming decade.
A $5 Trillion Climate Bill Is Next Blow to Air Travel: Big Take – Bloomberg
Could France’s ban on short-haul flights spread to the U.S.? – The Washington Post
Moving From “Flight Shame” to Flight Solutions | Sierra Club
Climate: Computer model says we need to mostly end long distance air travel – Coldstreams
How to make climate-neutral aviation fly | Nature Communications: “Here, we demonstrate that a European climate-neutral aviation will fly if air traffic is reduced to limit the scale of the climate impacts to mitigate.”
Snapshots of the End of Travel: On Trying to Enter a Personal No-Fly Zone ‹ Literary Hub (lithub.com) (the author documents her extensive global travel experience – and that of her husband – and how it has benefited her – but today, after she has benefited extensively from travel – everyone else must embrace “sacrifice” and give up air travel.)
Most of the authors of the above have significant international travel experience, as immigrants, or as study, internship or work abroad, or because they are or were travel writers. Many have now decided that travel, which they benefited from in the past, is unsuitable for you.
Their only solution is a top down, technocratic elite driven mandate that is unsustainable and will cause actual harms – except to themselves.
