Re: "Flight shame", anyone?
PostPosted:Sat May 04, 2019 7:57 am
I’m trying really hard to have flight shame, but I just can’t feel it. Sorry.
TheFarmer wrote:I’m trying really hard to have flight shame, but I just can’t feel it. Sorry.
akg1486 wrote:Personally, I actually am worried about the environment and I have respect for Greta in her efforts to get politicians to listen. .
akg1486 wrote:Personally, I actually am worried about the environment and I have respect for Greta in her efforts to get politicians to listen. But I really dislike people who can't put things into perspective: they buy a cotton bag for their groceries (has to be used 20,000 times to be better for the planet than plastic bags that are disposed of properly; growing cotton takes a lot of resources), fly to Thailand and post their fake shame on social media to make amends.
I fly 30 hours or so per year, using up some 1.000 liters of 100LL. I travel very little outside that except for work. I take trams and buses when I can and drive when I have to. I don't feel ashamed and I resent those who think I should.
paulo999 wrote:I can imagine a time - not in my ageing lifetime perhaps - but a time when we’ll be flying electric power plant. I wish it was now. Just a whirrrr in front, rather than a 50 year old design piston thing thrashing away.
Chris Martyr wrote:.. Notice how again , Greta goes for the easy target [i.e. the passengers] ...
It is not her mission which is flawed . It's her priorities . She should be starting off from the top of the list of polluting countries and working down . Not taking the easy route and the easily earned glory that goes with it .
kanga wrote:Happy, as ever, to be corrected.
kanga wrote:Happy, as ever, to be corrected ..
akg1486 wrote:Fun fact: Greta's mother is an internationally renowned opera singer who represented Sweden in Eurovision in 2009.
akg1486 wrote:Fun fact: Greta's mother is an internationally renowned opera singer who represented Sweden in Eurovision in 2009.