![]() ![]() Politicians and corporate sales departments will take note if we start acting together. For many of us, a decision not to fly might be the most significant reduction in emissions we can make as individuals.Īs Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has shown, refusing to fly also sends a powerful signal to others, by showing that you are willing to change your own behaviour. So why do it? A good deal of global carbon emissions come from industrial processes or electricity generation under the control of governments and corporations, rather than individual citizens. You can catch a bus, but you’ll spend that bus journey fantasising about the possibility of an overnight train service. If you get off at a stop along the way, you have to wait another two days to continue your journey. In the North Island, the train between Auckland and Wellington runs only every second day. Taking a train around New Zealand is no mean feat. I have some skin in this game.įlight shame: flying less plays a small but positive part in tackling climate change I am writing this on the train from Christchurch to Kaikoura, where I will give a talk about my recent book #NoFly: walking the talk on climate change. ![]()
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