What impact she or the idea of flygskam, as the Swedes call it, will have on individually-minded Americans and their entrenched consumer culture remains to be seen. But it’s worth noting that a seat on a flight across the Atlantic puts 1.6 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.AN INCONVENIENT TRUTHThe inconvenient truth is that most of the world’s population are – or would like to be – more like me: Shameless frequent flyers who use up more than their fair share of the world’s resources.
An American Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8, on a flight from Miami to New York City, comes in for landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York, U.S., March 12, 2019. Those people who do not want to or - more realistically – cannot afford to fly around the world on the flimsiest of pretexts, can sell their allocations to those of us who really must spread the message about unsustainable climate change in person.Even if this doesn’t make a huge impact on the amount of flying that people like me actually do, it might help address one of the other pressing problems of our age: The persistence of global economic inequality.
As the old joke has it, when something looks like it can’t go on forever, it probably won’t. If there is a solution to the greatest collective action problem in the history of the world bar none – forgive the hyperbole, but it’s merited – it will almost certainly be radical, global and equally unprecedented.
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