I flew to Italy in August 2018 for a family vacation with my wife and teenage boys (what I planned would be the last big family trip before the boys soon head off to university) and, upon my return, became depressed again…for being a hypocrite…for if someone as desperately concerned about our climate crisis as I am flies, then how can we possibly hope to convince those who are oblivious or docile, those who have been propagandized into the American dream (of infinite growth on a finite planet)?

So, I plan to fly only for funerals…there’s plenty of my own country that I have not yet seen, and if I can’t get there by train or bike then a car will have to do.