| Your comment actually strikes me as less about environmentalism and more about jealousy or some type of use of inequality as a guise for just wanting others to have less. For example, I think it borders on possibly immoral / unethical to vaguely associate or connote that leisure airplane travel or pool ownership for generic working class people is somehow responsible for climate change and needs to be radically adjusted away from social expectations. The reason I have no choice but to suspect an ulterior motive is that there simply is zero basis in fact to claim that certain patterns of consumption are problems like this. It’s purely a value judgment, and in this case largely disconnected from any citable statistics that expose wide impact for the class involved. My opinion is that working class people should fly to foreign destinations for vacation if they prefer to, and making this access cheaper is an amazingly enriching and productive aspect of humanity. It reminds me of a cliche quote from Dead Poets Society: > Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.” We shouldn’t seek to ban the pursuit of beautiful memories and experiences of travel, nor criticize that as a selfish goal. That’s ridiculous. We should acknowledge how obviously desirable it is and develop ways to do it that don’t have the negative environmental side effects. |