GRETA THUNBERG is currently afloat somewhere on the Atlantic Ocean. The 16-year-old Swedish climate-change activist is sailing from Britain to New York, where she will attend the UN’s Climate Action Summit. With cramped quarters, no toilet and the potential for rough seas, the two-week voyage will be uncomfortable. Ms Thunberg has described the experience as “camping on a rollercoaster”. By air, the journey would take just eight hours.
Ms Thunberg is not the only one. In the past 18 months the share of Swedes who say they travel by rail instead of air when possible has nearly doubled, from 20% to 37%, according to SJ, Sweden’s largest train operator. In 2018 SJ sold 1.5m, or 5%, more tickets than the previous year. Meanwhile, the number of passengers travelling on domestic flights in the country fell by 8% from January to April this year, according to Swedavia, which operates Sweden’s 10 busiest airports .
Other possible explanations for the decline in Swedish air travel include a slowing economy, a new tax on flights introduced last year and the bankruptcy in 2018 of NextJet, a Swedish regional airline. But Rickard Gustafson, the boss of SAS, a Scandinavian carrier, told a Norwegian newspaper this year that he was “convinced” thatFlugscham
Más que el trayecto marino de la activista, la noticia importante se encuentra en el descenso radical del uso del transporte aéreo en Suecia. Y eso es sólo el principio de una tendencia con importantes repercusiones.
More than 100 flights were arranged to make sure that she had a safe trip. This PR trip is a joke and a lot more damaging to the climate as a single flight for her would have caused.
Sailing with Andrea Albert Pierre Casiraghi, the elder son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover... Very opportunistic...
All our choices are based on cost-benefit. Hmmmm.
Of course, she could have just stayed at home and used video conferencing instead. One of my old employers was very keen that meetings needn't require face to face interactions and they were right. justsaying
I wonder how she gets back to Sweden.
PRINCESS OF GREEN REVOLUTION Princess Greta is coming to America. She could've made the trip in 8 hrs by air. Instead she decided to sail the ocean blue & reduce her carbon footprint to zero. She's a courageous young woman. Her generation will save us from climate destruction
Sorry, stopped reading when I got to '16-year-old...activist.' Go back to school Greta.
alllibertynews So people should use sail yachts to travel? Funny how The Economist panders to the authoritarian mesianic topdowners of this world.
Tell that to the Pentagon.
Maybe climate change makes it so that Swedes no longer have to travel abroad for a nice sunny holiday 😋
good because I don't like traveling anyway🤷♀️
No more planes, only sailboats. If you disagree you are a climate denier! also cows cant fart.
alllibertynews Nice example but not practical. There are no lessons to be learned here.
YouFlyWeDie YouCruiseWeLoose VoteClimate
Biokraftstoff every Swede owns an island with a red cottage on it - no need to fly anywhere
I suggest they walk and swim. Will be there always on time.
Fly shaming!'what snowflake came up with that.
As outstanding as Europe's rail network is, there's no reason for Swedish flights to the likes of Frankfurt or Paris.
Welcome to the carbon net zero outcome:
Thinking and re-thinking is a nice behavior!
Getting back in long boats?
And guess what, if they can travel by land and use an electric car, whose power comes from that big nuclear reactor in the sky, it's practically guilt free.
Idiots.
Nope, they’re re-thinking their currency habits.
is so woke that now like it hates fact and data. If GretaThunberg had travelled with her father that would have been 4 air trips. Now her 6 member crew and she will fly back. Close down your magazine or at least fire all journalists & editors ClimateChange
Wait for a massive climate event to hit Thermal cars, airlines, having babies... Impact will be immense. Climate stability is worth defending at all costs climatechange gretathunberg ipcc giec
GretaThunberg This is awesome Greta!! Heja dig! 🇸🇪
If there isn’t force measure, air travel isn’t preferable because the probability of livelihood after danger is very minimal.
That graph is the Krone diving. It's worth peanuts nowadays.
The fact people are influenced by this obvious shill is concerning.
Their efforts are futile. Trump flies on his jumbo jet for his golf trip every weekend and makes up for every CO2 atom they reduce.
The Swedish currency value replicates that pattern. It's the price of travel, not shame driving that.
And it has noting to do with the high special flight tax Sweden introduced in the beginning of 2018. Because a few months after it was introduced, all media pointed at this to be the reason for the stall...
As outstanding as the rail system in Europe is, there's not much reason to fly within Western Europe unless it's an island.
Swedes flagellating themselves? Shocking.
The Swedish crown has also plummeted.
Sweden is a socialistic country, which is a failed state today. Many rapes, many refugees, bad economic, broken welfaresystem and at least nobody use cash money there. Its no need to visit this state. But we anger Greta and fly as often we can.
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Planes are congested as it is. Flying from the US to Europe and back at least once a year might get a bit more comfortable for me if the Swedes keep themselves out of the skies!Unfortunately their numbers are too small to make a difference...
Shame! now there's an emotion half the UK should be feeling right about now. Tossers.
I imagine the trajectory looks slightly different in China, and in India.
Hmm
When you start to believe the shamers.
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