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 […]
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.