Should you go on a ‘flight diet’? (bbc.com)
Mostly we need to ban travel, but if you cannot avoid travel, then you should take the long train across the U.S. (everyone has weeks and months available for travel).
When you avoid air travel, tell your friends and post on social media!
Lastly, it can help to tell others about your decisions to reduce flying. “Making it known that you’re someone who’s given up flying for climate reasons can start to have a statistically significant impact on the amount that people around you fly,” says Cait Hewitt, deputy director of the Aviation Environment Federation (AEF), an environmental non-profit.
Public shaming is necessary.
If you live near a local, small, regional airport, you should drive 4 hours and 150 miles to the nearest large airport to avoid using small planes:
Thirdly, says Rutherford, avoid flying on either very small or very large planes. “Very small regional jets or very large aircrafts with four engines are less fuel efficient than your typical single aisle or small twin-aisle aircraft,” he says.
Only fly to places you can reach directly:
choose direct flights without layovers. “To go through hubs is adding a major chunk of emissions to your flight and if you can avoid that, that will help quite a bit in cutting down on your emissions,” says Gössling.
Corollary: We need to close all small, tertiary airports that go to few cities directly.
It’s so important that you stop flying, that it’s also okay to fly anyway because it signals your virtue!
During the holiday break, this one chose to take a cross country train home from a visit to see her grandparents. (school vacation wasn’t long enough to do both ways by train, so she opted to fly one way and train home.) She is on a #flightdiet for the sake of a liveable climate!
The BBC story teller has a science background but writes this same story, repeatedly: Should you go on a ‘flight diet’? (bbc.com)
Related: The No-Jet Set: They’ve Given Up Flying to Save the Planet – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
