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please-stop-flying.bsky.social
If you're still flying or eating meat, you are not serious about climate change.
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Did you know? The top three overseas destinations for UK travellers are Spain, France and Italy – all easily accessible without flying: 🇪🇸 www.seat61.com/Spain.htm 🇫🇷 www.seat61.com/France.htm 🇮🇹 www.seat61.com/Italy.htm (Thanks @seatsixtyone.bsky.social!)

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

If the US had modern high-speed electric trains like Japan's, they could be faster than flying anywhere within about 1,000 miles. While planes fly fast, travel to/from airports, security, runway/taxi time, baggage claim, etc. are slow. Here's what a 1,000 mile radius around Denver looks like.

submitted 57 days ago • 43 comments

Do you want to do something BIG this year that’s as good for the planet as it is for you? #FlightFree2025 now open for pledges! vimeo.com/1043145182

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

"It’s time to stop fantasising about a decarbonised utopia and start acting on the resilience-building strategies that can protect our communities and steward a path through the rising tide of trouble that is coming our way." New piece for The Guardian. Read now. https://buff.ly/49YXtig

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

Starting the New Year with this absolutely fantastic book on the movements organising workers and communities to fight inequality and climate breakdown ✊ thenewpress.com/books/power-...

submitted 58 days ago • 4 comments

So you can all join me in yelling at the stupidity and or straight of evilness of this m.youtube.com/watch?v=vvBx...

submitted 61 days ago • 13 comments

That’s it - I’ve seen the dumbest commercial - Air Canada where the girl is sad that her backyard rink is melted SO SHE GETS ON AN AIRPLANE to fly somewhere for a magic potion to freeze the ice and you know what would actually help preserve backyard ice?! 📉

submitted 61 days ago • 39 comments

Zoe Wiiams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social refuses to fly, even in the face of occasional disruption and inconvenience. Be like Zoe! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

At Flight Free UK, we challenge people to travel without flying to reduce emissions and create a social shift away from air travel. Aviation emissions are higher than you might think! 👇 More here: flightfree.co.uk/why_flight_f...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

It really is now or never. Previous generations have had to make great sacrifices - can we at least make some little ones? A plant-based diet and giving up flying are not the hugest of inconveniences, if you think about what's at stake for even a minute.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

“It’s amazing how much travel is baked into middle-class, upper-middle-class culture,” he says. “It’s not really that uncommon to not fly. It’s just in our bubble that it feels unthinkable.”

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments