Did you know? The top three overseas destinations for UK travellers are Spain, France and Italy – all easily accessible without flying:

🇪🇸 www.seat61.com/Spain.htm
🇫🇷 www.seat61.com/France.htm
🇮🇹 www.seat61.com/Italy.htm

(Thanks @seatsixtyone.bsky.social!)

Do you want to do something BIG this year that’s as good for the planet as it is for you?

#FlightFree2025 now open for pledges!

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"It’s time to stop fantasising about a decarbonised utopia and start acting on the resilience-building strategies that can protect our communities and steward a path through the rising tide of trouble that is coming our way."

New piece for The Guardian. Read now.

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Starting the New Year with this absolutely fantastic book on the movements organising workers and communities to fight inequality and climate breakdown ✊

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So you can all join me in yelling at the stupidity and or straight of evilness of this

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That’s it - I’ve seen the dumbest commercial - Air Canada where the girl is sad that her backyard rink is melted SO SHE GETS ON AN AIRPLANE to fly somewhere for a magic potion to freeze the ice and you know what would actually help preserve backyard ice?! 📉

Zoe Wiiams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social refuses to fly, even in the face of occasional disruption and inconvenience. Be like Zoe!

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At Flight Free UK, we challenge people to travel without flying to reduce emissions and create a social shift away from air travel.

Aviation emissions are higher than you might think! 👇

More here: flightfree.co.uk/why_flight_f...

It's important to remember too that no one and no sector is exempt from this. Lamenting the climate crisis and fossil industry while pretending your own choices are irrelevant is far too common in the conservation and climate world.

It really is now or never. Previous generations have had to make great sacrifices - can we at least make some little ones? A plant-based diet and giving up flying are not the hugest of inconveniences, if you think about what's at stake for even a minute.

Yes: fine to completely normalise futures where machines suck many 100s billions of tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere, but suggesting limits on the number of flights taken by wealthy hi-emitters or moving away from cars (including EVs) in built-up urban environments is considered beyond the pale.

“It’s amazing how much travel is baked into middle-class, upper-middle-class culture,” he says. “It’s not really that uncommon to not fly. It’s just in our bubble that it feels unthinkable.”