Letters to the Editor: A love of travel shouldn’t ignore its environmental costs

To the editor: In her op-ed about the glories of travel, writer Lisa Niver laments lost luggage, missed flights and LAX. Our fragile planet is so compromised by human-caused climate chaos that we can no longer afford to gallivant around the world on airplanes without further dire consequences. The kind of air travel Niver suggests is energy-intensive and dependent on fossil fuels, and is the whimsy of a privileged class. To the editor: I was reading Niver’s article extolling the virtues of her globetrotting lifestyle with increasing bemusement, but it was her next-to-last paragraph that moved me to write.