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Tourism should be much harder. Make your way to your destination by bike, yacht, even if it takes a year to get there.
by abraae 7y ago
Tourism should be much harder. Make your way to your destination by bike, yacht, even if it takes a year to get there.
- samvher 7y agoI hope you mean sailing yacht :)
- adrianN 7y agoOnce we have UBI we might consider year long "vacations", but before that making vacations much harder is unlikely to be a popular opinion.
- abraae 7y agoIt's a spectrum. Sitting in a cafe yesterday, I overheard some people talking casually about flying the entire family up to Rarotonga to see a concert. A wealthy relative recently flew from the Philippines to Tokyo and then returned again - without leaving the airport - so that she could preserve her super ultra sure miles status. I myself have occasionally flown LHR to SFO to attend a over or two hour meeting. We cannot continue living like this.
- adrianN 7y agoI agree, but people who do things like you listed would be the least affected by making traveling harder.
- truculent 7y agoThat depends how we make it harder. Frequent flier + domestic flight levies, for example, can disproportionately affect the behaviours mentioned
- lawlessone 7y ago>so that she could preserve her super ultra sure miles Ok that is crazy and that's the airlines fault for creating such a situation.
- newnewpdro 7y agoUBI is not going to be a net win for the environment, not by a long shot. Get ready for another baby boom, here we come UBI.
- pjc50 7y agoThat very much depends on how and when children are eligible for it. If you have to pay for it out of your own UBI, not so much. Not to mention that UBI does nothing for the pain of childbirth.
- onion2k 7y agoA lot of people want to give up work to look after a baby but can't afford to because they need the income, so they end up not having children. UBI would mean they could afford to give up work and raise children instead. I actually see that as a positive, but if you're concerned about population growth you might see it as a negative.
- pjc50 7y agoBut would that mean they have more than the replacement rate of children? In the west we're slightly below that already.
- pyrale 7y agoIt is unlikely that any actual outcome of climate change is going to be popular. In terms of making choices, though, it is likely that taking vacations in a place that is close enough not to fly there will be more popular than not having heat in winter, not feeding your kids or abandoning the idea of getting medics.