IThey were among the first to worry about global warming, to howl at 4×4s in town, to buy their vegetables at an AMAP, to be able to detour 500 meters to throw their peelings in the neighborhood composter. The only thing is the plane. the flight shaming (the shame of flying) hasn’t reached them yet. Travel is their ” little pleasure “, they say like vegetarians would recognize the occasional crush on a burger.
After all, is it so bad to fly for a three-day weekend in a European capital when you take your paper bags and jars to the market to avoid packaging? What can we do if those most sensitive to ecology are also travel enthusiasts? They can go through the list of everything they’ve restricted themselves to… and unroll at the same speed a string of alibis that justify their next plane journeys. Next year they will fly less, but this year they have children in Erasmus programs to go see. And then they are not going to go to Palermo by bike for the Ascension!
How do we recognize them?
During the Covid-19, they found the holidays in France very good. When they were in Greece for ten days the following summer, at the time of the fires, they found it incredible that there was not more concern about the climate crisis. They vaguely feel like a rental car is spewing CO2 rent. In winter, they consider these large advertisements for flights at 39 euros to be ecologically shocking. In the spring, they find it economically shocking to have to pay round trips of 400 euros. On Instagram, they still post photos of their holidays but not those taken from the window of the plane. Who knows, their followers might think they got there by train.
how they talk
“I went to New York, but with the Covid-19 I had not been there for two years. » “Our daughter almost canceled her vacation at the time of the IPCC report. » “There are still things that are no longer done. » “If we look at the family’s carbon footprint, my husband hasn’t flown in three years. » “It would really take a case of force majeure for me to go to the South by plane. » “I look forward to being forbidden to do certain things. » “Last year, we discovered Haute-Loire. » “Their children forced them to go to Poland by bus, we are not there yet. » “Frankfurt, now, I’m going there by train, but the United States is not possible…” “Venice, I usually go there by sleeper train, but with my mother I take the plane. » “You have to have time to take the train. » “Compared to the billionaires who go into space, it’s fine…” “At least we have a bad conscience. »
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