Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to climate activist Lisa Floris, greens like her need to be able to fly, to see things with their own eyes, to fully appreciate the harm we are doing to the planet.
Is giving up flying the best way to stop climate change?
By Lise Floris
I start sweating nervously every time I read about how air travel impacts the environment.
Having lived abroad for more than 20 years, I take a plane as if it were a city bus, worrying only about how to get from A to B as quickly as possible.
And yet I know there are very valid arguments for why we should substantially reduce aeroplane journeys, or stop flying altogether.
A very guilty pleasure
Without doubt I am responsible for the emission of hundreds of tonnes of CO2.
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Modern-day technology means that business meetings can be held via Skype or video conference and we can visit any place in the world just by going on YouTube or putting on our virtual reality glasses.
But perhaps flying offers something even more important. Could it be that flying is necessary for the soul?
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Flying in order to “be there” has taught me about many things.
With tears in my eyes, I have seen thousands of acres of palm oil plantations in Asia from the air — and their impact on wildlife from the ground.
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Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-04/flying-climate-change-stay-grounded/11067918
The solution is obvious – while flying restrictions should apply to the general population, those who feel most deeply about the degradation we are inflicting on the Earth clearly need access to air travel so they can fully appreciate and cherish the beauty of our world’s natural spaces.
Utter hypocrisy Lise!
A) You fail to understand the levels alarmists insist governments force their citizens to adopt.
B) The alleged eco-alternatives are only viable where unicorns play.
C) You Lise, have failed to research your own emission contributions. ” hundreds of tonnes of CO2″ grossly understates your personal CO₂ emissions.
Your fellow alarmists want to eliminate fossil fuels! They protest prospecting, drilling, extracting and transporting fossil fuels; often using drastic means!
That means:
No more air flights.
No more cars, trains or boats.
No more computers.
No more synthetics! Not only are synthetics made from fossil fuels, they require fossil fuels for their manufacture.
No more artificial insulation.
No more wind turbines or solar arrays. Wind and solar are utterly dependent upon fossil fuels for production.
No more abundant foods! Most crops are raised by using fertilizers made from fossil fuels.
etc. etc. etc.
What is astonishing is the sheer amount of arrogant ignorance, privilege and egotism you display, Lise.
Lise Floris emulates the profoundly selfish philosophies of the virtue signalling, ‘save the planet’, pseudo-environmental prattling fools embracing the ‘Climate Change’ fraud. “I must keep flying to sustain and feed my false outrage!” Ugh!
I feel the need to see for myself what is happening in Miami, and the Balearic Islands, 0h and the Caribbean – luckily these are exactly the places I like to go on holiday – what a coincidence!!!
What a strange mixed up muddled up ignorant person this Lisa is. What is her skill set? She clearly isn’t an engineer and isn’t from a science background. What apart from writing virtue signalling drivel does she actually do?
Clearly being multi lingual, does not bring with it wisdom or knowledge.
102 comments so far, and I have not seen where anyone has answered the question simply and directly:
“Could it be that flying is necessary for the soul?”
No.
From a green activist : “I believe I can fly …”
Could it be that flying is necessary for the soul?
I cackled so loud I woke the feral cats in the bush outside.
As for flying being necessary for the soul, it’s only been available tk the under 50 “because I’m worth it” generation. So that means she’s like everyone else andikes flging to exotic locations.
She could video conference and use Google Earth and free up all that travelling time. In fact using satellite imagery she could monitor change over the last 20 or more years.
Flying? Bah – Walk instead.
If needing shoes, one can always make rope sandals from reeds cut from the swamp. Of course one must use a stone axe to cut the reeds as steel is simply out of the question.
Forget just a ban on the unwashed from aviation – you can’t have data services either as the Guardian breathlessly claims “5G Signals could jam satellites that help with weather forecasting”. “The way that 5G is being introduced could seriously compromise our way to forecast major storms.”
The weasel word “could” along with conjuring up images of hurricanes and blizzards. The ability to forecast that, but apparently not garden variety weather events is seriously compromised.
Your local cell phone tower is going to blind the weather wizards from seeing hurricane forming conditions thousands of miles away in the midst of the Atlantic, so now these storms are going to sneak up on your without any warning.
Shame on us for being so selfish.
It seems to me the Left, and that includes ALL variations of ‘leftness’ are always on the outlook for something to be frightened to death about! When they find something, it always involves OTHER people being inconvenienced or TAXED to death. In other words, OTHER people have to be punished! The elitist’s who ‘discover’ this fearful thing are not required to give up THEIR way of life! Of course not. As noted, it’s like the OPM syndrome.
Re. Dean from Ohio, if a believer in whatever they beehive in makes them happy so b e it.
But please keep your belief and its life style to yourself, and do not
endeavour to convert others to that belief system.
As regards the Middle East, it was the result of combing a faith, largely from the Hebrew faith, plugs a “Way of life”, which is the Islamic faith, that is responsible for much if not all of the problems wherever that particular faith exists.
Its a 1500 year old faith based on the semi desert of Saudi Arabia, and so is ally out of tough with the modern world.
The other variation of the Hebrew faith, that of Christanity, has evolved over the years and today id fairly mild belief system.
Yes a few hundred years ago it was very different, but unlike Islam, it has evolved with todays World without losing its basic message.
MJE VK5ELL
Michael,
What if I say, “You can keep your unbelief to yourself then.” Will you never again object to someone speaking about faith?
I didn’t think so.
Faith is personal, but it is not private. Furthermore, I was answering points on Christianity made by others; why don’t you scold them?
Sorry, not sorry.
Is it any wonder that all these climate alarmists/activists are viewed with derision by not only the climate realists but also by the general public. Particularly bad are the Hollywood types who have no intention of renouncing their profligate lifestyles in favor of cutting back, conserving and adopting the various measures that are supposed to save the planet. Their attitude is that’s for other people because they’re just too important, a stance which inevitably earns them a well-deserved horselaugh for their hypocrisy.
Ah, decisions, decisions ……..
Yes it’s so important for the soul Lisa particularly for all you actresses playing a part-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/celebrity/emma-thompson-the-first-class-hypocrite-actress-is-pictured-dining-on-champagne-and-beef-in-£18000-personal-booth-on-carbon-spewing-ba-plane-jetting-to-new-york-days-after-lecturing-us-all-to-stop-flying/ar-AAAW09J
“All animals are equal.
Some animals are more equal than others.”
George Orwell
Like the protesters who tell us their forestry investments justify letting them fly but they only actually hold they hold to avoid tax so we have paid their indulgences for their sins for them but their trusting followers don’t see that part.
“Could it be that flying is necessary for the soul?”
I think she misqouted someone. Something like ‘Travelling is good for the soul”, but a quick search gave me only these nice quotes:
“To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen
“Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” -Aldous Huxley
“With tears in my eyes, I have seen thousands of acres of palm oil plantations in Asia from the air — and their impact on wildlife from the ground.”
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With tears in her eyes, she could have seen thousands of acres of palm oil plantations in Asia from the armchair in her living room* — and their impact on wildlife from the ground.
* on tv documentaries