Originally posted by oliverson
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I'm an explorer rather than a homebird who enjoys a routine. Everybody may take a different approach to life.
On another note:
I appreciate this is heading slightly off topic but in the future ideal we won't have such cheap flights if they are as polluting as they are now. Train journeys should be really cheap the longer the distance. If I get the train to Germany via the Eurostar the price is substantially higher than a flight. This doesn't make sense if we attach a climate impact rating to the journey.
My hope is that in future we have a redesigned 'consumer' (hate that word) economy that rewards sensible climate choice by those being the cheapest choices. Currently we pay less for the worst climate choice and therefore people naturally choose this as it's cheapest. The US are resistant to this method of pricing but the Republicans seem to be climate-change denialists, for the most part, but I really hope we move to a system in which tasteless green vegetables flown in from Egypt are discouraged by high prices and a red climate change rating on them, whereas a cabbage from up the road is ultra cheap in comparison and has a green rating attached. In the current economic environment price is king and this seems the easy route to ensure that damaging products/services are priced accordingly.
I also believe this will see a newer generation of flying and travel options that are low carbon and incredibly impressive in their engineering feats. We've been stagnant for quite a while on many of those fronts due to incumbent fossil fuel industry - an understandable resistance to change, given the profit they make. Those who wish to be able to explore the world should be able to do so without being guilt tripped into avoiding such good endeavors. Only technology change will allow that.
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