Anonymous wrote:Why do you travel?
How often?
Do you think about how air travel affects the environment? You know it does but you need to or want to?
Or you don't think about the effects?

OP, do you think of the environmental impact of lowering your AC to 72 in the summer? Do you think about the tons of toilet paper, paper towels and napkins you use every year and how it affects the environment?

Do you think of the fact that the western world washes their cars, floors, clothes etc. with potable water? When most of the world doesn’t even have access to clean drinking water?

I can go on and on. If you worry about travel that much, I hope you also worry about all the other crazy things we do to destroy our environment.

Anonymous wrote:No personal responsibility for the people on this forum I guess

You and I don’t see eye to eye on what personal responbility entails.

Why: The world is so vast, why would I stay in my tiny bubble? I want to see the world, see other cultures, eat foods I’ve never had before. Also the weather sucks where I am lol.

How often: really as often as possible. I get 6 wks vacation, so I try to utilize it as best I can, adding onto holidays and long weekends. I’d say we avg 3 trips a year. LY was 5, but one was a short trip to the local mountains.

Environmental impact: I’m generally a huge hippy. I grow my own veg, recycle, compost etc. but I know that everything I do makes almost no difference. The corps and private jets do far more polluting than I do. So I do feel a little bad, but not that much.

No personal responsibility for the people on this forum I guess

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Anonymous wrote:All these people who travel with their kids and yet don't give a single thought to the environmental toll of airplane travel are the ridiculous ones. Not to mention insanely selfish.

LOL so it’s not the travel per se but the fact that they do it with their kids?? The trolling gets worse.

Spend enough time on the political forum or watching other forums, there are unquestionably people out there who think like this and who aren't trolling. Just sayin'

I travel because I enjoy it. I'm going to Switzerland this summer for two weeks of hiking and walking in the Alps. Why not?

Anonymous wrote:All these people who travel with their kids and yet don't give a single thought to the environmental toll of airplane travel are the ridiculous ones. Not to mention insanely selfish.

LOL so it’s not the travel per se but the fact that they do it with their kids?? The trolling gets worse.

Anonymous wrote:All these people who travel with their kids and yet don't give a single thought to the environmental toll of airplane travel are the ridiculous ones. Not to mention insanely selfish.

Again, the billionaires and corporations are trying to push responsibility to individuals where we. don't. make. a dent. of difference. Get that through your head.

I don't travel much but I don't think about the impact at all.