It’s time to ban travel: Global elite who’ve spent their life traveling around the world now urge restrictions on travel.
They Feel so Guilty About Climate Change, They Won’t Travel Far From Home
As a result, she drastically changed the way she travels, opting for trains over planes, and small trips in the family’s electric car to nearby spots like the Berkshires in Massachusetts. The kind of globe-hopping she used to do is now inconceivable to her.
“My sister lives in England,” she said. “I went over before having a kid, and I was like, well, since I’m in England, Iceland isn’t that far away. I really want to see some puffins. I flew to Iceland for like, three days, and I have such shame-like, who am I? My gosh, Iceland to look at birds.”
More recent events, like the L.A. fires, have only solidified her stance.
As an elite New Englander, she blames California fires on “climate change” (California never had a fire before, in history – fact!)
Another person dripping with global eliteness …
Joanna McGibbon, a New York–based lawyer who estimates that she takes around 10 trips a year, has a slightly different take.
….McGibbon noted that she also thinks twice before booking all-inclusive resorts, even while acknowledging their draw: “They’re fantastic; I’ve been to all-inclusives. You just go, you sit, and you don’t leave the resort,” she said. But “all that money is going toward a big hotelier” as opposed to local businesses.
Another elite global traveler in the article never spends more than 3 nights away from home, by personal choice, so he flies to London and back again, or to Singapore, and back again, right away.
The article ends by wrapping travel into “voluntourism” – which is well known for its scams. In most cases, people who make a lot of money in real life, spend thousands to fly to a destination where they do unskilled labor work. If they really cared, they would donate their travel expenses – not a few hours of minimum wage level unskilled work.
- “Voluntourism” is mostly scams
- Voluntourism is still a scam
- Volunteer opportunities and travel (much of it is a scam)
And then we get to this!
For McGibbon, the ultimate dream is to split her time between two homes-one in the United States and one abroad. Doing that-slowing down and elongating her stays (thereby cutting down on emissions-blasting plane takeoffs), planting roots in two communities, participating in the culture and economy as a local instead of a visitor-checks all the boxes for sustainable and ethical travel in the most meaningful way.
Because she cares!
The above article reads more like something in The Onion than Fodor’s!
“Climate change” is about virtue signaling – and nothing to do with any actions that would increase efficiency and result in actual changes (if any are needed).
There are a lot more examples of the above type of thinking over in the right column of this blog… and this is why I, the person who has spent USD $64K over five years to cut our emissions to 1/10th that of the average American home no longer care about any of this. Details about that are in the right hand column.
