These People Have Given Up Flying To Help The Environment
Huff PostEvery round trip from New York City to London costs the Arctic 30 square feet in lost ice. All these levels of action ― community, individual, national, international ― they’re all feeding back on each other.” Peter Kalmus, an author and climate scientist, quit flying seven years ago. “When you’re flying it’s like you’re beamed into a different location, whereas when you go on a train journey, you can feel the transition.” Dave Ogden from Edinburgh, Scotland, managed to avoid planes for four years after reading up on climate change when the Paris agreement was in the news in 2015. “The sort of rapid change we need to avert the collapse of the ecosystem through climate change ― that’s not going to come about by people voluntarily choosing to change their behavior,” he added. A survey compiled by one of his students last year found that, of 153 people who’d cut back on flights, 76 percent said it felt like “doing the right thing” and 69 percent said “information about environmental impacts” changed their minds.
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