. I’m a 26-year-old millennial. I know that my generation not only values travel more than those before us, but that being a Person Who Travels is a personality trait, maybe something deeper than that. It even makes us more attractive – dating apps such as Tinder and Hinge report that you’re more likely to get a match if you use travel photos in your profile. Travel seems to be a virtue in itself, synonymous with “interesting,” cooler than child-rearing and home-owning.
I get why people drool over travel photos. A reminder: I went on a trip to a half-cancelled conference on the cusp of a global health crisis because it meant I got to somewhere I had never been before. The way I see it, I will probably never own a house and I don’t know whether I’ll have children or from what career I will retire; travelling is a thing I can do to introduce immediate novelty, purpose and identity into my life.
But as I luxuriate over the pros and cons of travel, the planet is warming. The world must dramatically reduce its emissions to avoid the most devastating effects of climate change. The appeal of travel feels flimsy in comparison. Making this argument, though, topples dangerously close to a slippery slope. I’ve seen cases made against post-COVID travel that are thinly veiled anti-migrant dog whistles, or that perpetuate racist myths about the virus. Perhaps you’ve seen a meme claiming that humans, in fact, are the virus.
If anything, the pandemic has showed us how our planet can put business-as-usual on hold when our safety is at stake. The optimist in me hopes we could do the same for climate change. For the time being, we are forced to reckon with an anxious question: Who are we when we can’t leave home? The answer, I think, requires soul-searching deeper than jumping on a plane.
GlobeDebate Is this the kind of commentary I should expect from the Globe going forward? Millenials feeling guilty about air travel? God help us.
GlobeDebate Less how? Less than we are, less than we did, less as individuals, fewer in the air? Who will pay for all this idleness?
GlobeDebate Leave them things on the ground.
GlobeDebate What a very silly comment.
GlobeDebate Well, we can definitely start by bringing fewer than 144 Canadian delegates to climate conferences
GlobeDebate Got plans for multi countries. If anything this showed us, life is short, travel far and often 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 ✈️
GlobeDebate Dumb. What a waste of words.
GlobeDebate SPEAK TO YOURSELF
GlobeDebate Fear mongering written by a clearly brain dead liberal journalist for the Globe. “Freelance” generally means washed your or funky no one wants Kate, just to be clear. Rather than writing non sense why don’t you go back to reading your strawberry shortcake books under the covers.
GlobeDebate We will. No doubt about it.
GlobeDebate I have minimum 4 vacations a year planned ... the fact that I’m not able to go anywhere right now is driving me crazy. If anything people should be exploring the world more now, not less!!!
GlobeDebate Once we have full globalism you wont need to travel because everyone will be generic and visiting other countries to experience other cultures will be useless.
GlobeDebate Speak for yourself!!
GlobeDebate Ridiculous, I hope people lose weight.
GlobeDebate Time to build the Trans-Canada bicycle highway so that people can travel long distances with near zero-emissions? Ironically that photo is of AC’s 737-MAX that we’re grounded a year before all of this started.
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