Flight shame is dead

[C_T_Russell]

I have done more than my share of travelling and about five years ago I resolved never to travel by air again.   I used to regard my friends as a fairly enlightened bunch but I've found that apart from my husband and one distant relative none of them share my views.   And as for acquaintances and neighbours... they're all proudly off on bloody cruises and tropical holidays.   Friends in London are constantly off on cheap "mini-breaks", which seem utterly pointless.

It's hard to have any kind of conversation about travel without coming across as sanctimonious though.   What do you say when someone asks you about travel plans for the year?   How to get some kind of message across without being offensive?

Expect to receive ridicule from others.
Keep your personal views and beliefs to yourself is my advice.
Your post here is proof that this global warming phenomenon is just another religion cult.
You have no obligation to preach the idealogy, nor should anyone be expected to listen to it.
It's just the same when I was in the Jehovah's witnesses cult.
We were expected to take any opportunity to preach to others if asked when your birthday was, or what we were going to do over Christmas.
We had to respond and give a reason why we didn't celebrate birthdays or Christmas and use it as a way to preach to others.
I sure as hell never did, even when I was a believing member.
And I sure as hell don't give a flying fuck what my carbon footprint is when I travel.
I'm not letting anyone tell me that it's wrong to fly or be guilt tripped for doing so.
Firstly practice what you preach and ditch your petrol car if you haven't done so already and stop buying things that contain plastics if you are serious about any of this.