Getting to no
Oliver Robertson considers a prompting of conscience
I have a university friend getting married this summer. I confirmed I’d go and booked the flights to her home in Israel. Then the thunderbolt hit. It was a line in an email, that a forthcoming study (from an oil company, no less) predicts 6˚C warming by the end of the century if we continue on our present course. This is just so appalling that I find it almost unthinkable, and I know that I am part of the problem. In various parts of my life I am more sustainable than many. I am vegetarian, I live in a small studio and I am frugal with water. But I travel. A lot. In 2011 I clocked up about 25,000km of travel for work and pleasure combined, most of it by train.
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