Avoidance of Flying - Flygskam

The Flygskam concept may seem very worthy, but basically it's a nice PR/Marketing scheme aimed solely at raising awareness, which it seems to do. Fewer filled seats but a rising and ongoing quantity of flights means aviation impacts are rising. I recently flew to Manchester on a full plane. Client in US called for an all day meeting at Old Trafford football (soccer) ground. People from Edinburgh, London, Boston, Norway, somewhere else. If I had suggested paying someone to set up and run a 15 person Citrix or Skype business video conference for a day, which the Conf. centre can do easily. where powerpoints and documents can be freely shown live online, I suspect many would have baulked because they like their trips and hotels and evening dinners at soccer ground restaurants and day off next day and Business Class ego massage too much. So instead of a three hour well managed Conference call I have to spend a day and a half stuck on jam=packed planes, in airports trying to weave me through masses of perfume, booze, sweeties and expensive not-needed clothes, then messing about in a suit. Flying back from Norway next Monday. It's an Oil Co. Client The oil co. people still like to spend money unnecessarily as if it were 1995.

I hope that Europe will take note of the current situation on natural gas going on rapidly in The Netherlands now, where no new homes are fitted with natural gas provision and serious government moves are afoot quickly to avoid reliance on "Gas from The East" via pipelines or vessel LNG from Qatar, for obvious reasons.

Energy Post (2017), “A Revolution: The Netherlands Kisses Gas Goodbye – But Will it Help the Climate?”, 7th June 2017.
energypost.eu/a-revolution-the-netherlands-kisses-gas-goodbye-but-will-it-help-the-climate/
Energy Saving Trust (2019), "Switching to low-carbon heat: an example from the Netherlands”, 16th April 2019.
www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/blog/switching-low-carbon-heat-example-netherlands

Serious measures against Air Transport are summed up in a nutshell in TR510: "The Green Party seeks a reduction in the amount and impact of air transport". fewer flight numbers, higher taxation, fuel type change & research and development funding, no airport expansion amongst others. Further details of Transport Policy, developed iteratively over last 10 years here: policy.greenparty.org.uk/tr.html

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