My generation and the one before it have made prospects for young people relentlessly shit. They know it. And we’ve trained them to think that voting is the only real agency they have. Which is bullshit.

For the most part, I don’t begrudge them making their lives momentarily less shit

I dunno. Some of it is conscious, by the most lost people. But I think it’s mostly the aggregated property of what most of us do at the individual scale.

A billion “yeah I could do the low carbon thing but there are ‘reasons’ why this journey, this meeting, this purchase can’t do that”.

What we most critically lack are contexts in which to talk about why our ‘reasons’ are dust and what to do about it

my extended family is from Malaysia, my older relatives who migrated to UK in late 1960s are now accepting they may not be able to go "back home" in their remaining lifetimes (two crashed aircrafts of the national airline with multiple casualties are also a factor, but the environment is also one (as well as flying and airports increasingly becoming hostile environments, and security risks with crossing the Middle East)

My older aunts now only go on holiday in mainland Europe or within Britain.

I have not been on an aircraft myself since 2001 and that was for a work trip, and have no intention of doing so..

What you are describing is " #PathDependency ".

And billionaires are just part of the path. As are people cheering for combustion engines or the newest electric car.

This is the way inequal human societies just function - Persistence & Tradition is valued over everything else.

And when the powerful AND a great part of the powerless want the same thing - #stability - then survival becomes an afterthought.

The lack of a reliable, integrated train system through Europe is a big problem for people who must travel for work or family matters. Sometimes it is not possible in the time and budget available to avoid a flight for at least one leg of the trip. That does not stop a mass boycott of holiday flights, though. A holiday does not require us to have an alternative means of transport to the same destination. We can choose holidays in places that do not require a flight.

I try not to be a total arse about it, but I just had to cancel a citybreak in bloody *Birmingham* because I rely on public transit and the trainlines in Wales were buckling in the heat.

"People are not going to change behaviour at a scale that really matters"

They certainly won't as long as frivolous flying is something we congratulate people on instead of it being frowned-upon. If that flight to London is for a holiday, not work or family, then an Aarhus-KBH train price comparison is irrelevant. We were proud to be part of the mass South African apartheid boycott in the '80s. Now we tell each other it's no real use boycotting holiday flights.

I just... can't.

I have spent the last years focusing on thinking clearly.

Would not have thought that this was in the cards.

Climate disasters are reported without any institutional memory. At this point, this has to be intentional. And criminal.

Agreed. We need to pull every lever to drive change.

Sometimes, when people are discussing holiday plans, I'll mutter "I don't fly anymore, except for family visits, because my conscience won't let me. But you do you". But I'll be the only one at the lunch table.

During this June heatwave (11-12 days here, with a maximum of 37 degrees), I've been thinking I should really start speaking up more. Someone should start changing the social expectation, right?

Young people flying to holiday destinations multiple times a year. I don't get it. It's not like they haven't been aware of climate change since middle school. And they'll be suffering the consequences for their whole - hopefully long - lives.