Yes and No

August 14, 2021 Longrider General News, misanthropy, Science and Technology 9

I’ve stopped flying too.

Previously a regular flyer, visiting friends in Scotland and holidaying abroad, she says the penny dropped during that trip. And in the end, the decision was easy.

“It was a relief to say I’m not doing it any more,” she says. “I knew that what I was doing wasn’t consistent with what I thought was right.”

She is one of a small band of people who have found flying just too uncomfortable to contemplate any more.

The difference is that I haven’t stopped flying because climate change – because whatever I do, it will change anyway. I lack the necessary hubris to think that I can make a difference to what is a natural phenomenon. I’m not God, nor do I have any desire to be so.

No, I became increasingly weary of the security theatre, the interminable waits, long queues to take off my shoes and undergo searches just to get to a client. In December 2019, I called time on my rail career and with it, the tedious flights and tiresome nights in hotels. If I never fly again I won’t be sorry, but I did it for purely personal reasons – it’s a hateful experience and I never want to endure it again. That I am choosing not to fly is the only thing I have in common with the sanctimonious carbon footprint brigade.

9 Comments

  1. I gradually transitioned from a believer in the climate cult to a lukewarmer to finally becoming a complete sceptic. It is now obvious that the partial correlation between CO2 and temperatures is coincidental. I’ve been watching Paul Homewood systematically refuting the claims of the climate alarmists for years and I am now pretty certain that they are full of it.

    On the subject of flying, I quite enjoy it but I haven’t flown for a few years now, I just haven’t needed to go anywhere.

  2. Maybe she is miffed that she could not wangle a jolly to Cop xy (where x and y are integers I can’t remember) in sunny Glesgae at the Court of Wee Nippie, The Sainted Krankie, Jimmy.
    Don’t try to hire a bike in Scotland that Month. They have all been taken at full tourist rates by delegates and Green Press.
    Aye, right.

  3. No way am I flying anywhere while they insist that I wear a mask. Even though I desperately want to go somewhere warm. It’ll wait unti the airline companies see sense.

  4. Haven’t flown for years, have let the passports expire and have no intention of renewing them.
    Nope, not being treated like some bloody terrorist by jobsworths, not playing their queueing for hours game, they can stick their airports and their security checks where the sun don’t shine.
    Polish girl at work told me they have to book in at the aiprort some 4 or more hours before due, oh and pay through the nose for fake flu checks, not playing that game either nor lining some poltician’s mate’s trouser pockets, not to mention the car parking scam.
    There’s nothing worth putting up with being treated like cattle for.

  5. It’s an interesting comparison that the intense ‘security’ nonsense at airports started around 2006 after some momentary fear of terrorism – 15 years later and it’s still all happening, despite there being no record of it ever preventing any security threat.

    Now cast your mind forward 15 years to 2036, long after Covid the chaos has become a distant memory – what’s the betting that the control freaks will still impose the restraints first dreamt up in their futile virus war, whether they ever had any effect or not? It’s about control and they will never give up control easily.

    • Come to that we still have the road speed limits they brought in (supposedly) over an oil shortage back in the sixties or early seventies. Once they get people used to some restriction on our lives it never, ever goes away.

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