A climate researcher who was fired from his job for refusing to take a flight back from a work trip has been awarded compensation in court for unfair dismissal. Gianluca Grimalda has been reducing his air travel since 2010. But in 2023, his employer, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) in Germany, terminated […]
This is a really good example of why individuals can’t make a difference, systemic changes are needed.
High speed trains when applicable, but there really isn’t a practical way of going to Australia other than flying.
You don’t like long boat trips in the Pacific?
Edit so there’s a tradition of physical proximity for certain things, which don’t make much sense with modern communication.
There’s other things like research, physical work etc. we can make space for people to travel and make long term commitments to locale changes.
working on it
https://www.csiro.au/-/media/Energy/Sustainable-Aviation-Fuel/Sustainable-Aviation-Fuel-Roadmap.pdf
https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/energy-transition/sustainable-aviation-fuels
Also defeatist and completely not true, billions of people are making an impact every day
But really meaningful differences are penalized instead of subsidised.
We need the conversation to go toward rewarding individuals who make sacrifices like this.