I really wonder what will happen if flightshaming continues and starts to have an impact. I work in a travel heavy industry (semiconductors) and the first year

I really wonder what will happen if flightshaming continues and starts to have an impact. I work in a travel heavy industry (semiconductors) and the first year and a half where only the bare minimum of folks travelled (getting engineers into Korea & Taiwan in 2020/2021 was interesting) productivity noticeably plummeted. Not only that though, international teams became openly more hostile towards each other and retreated into their national, culturally familiar shell. The Taiwanese became way more sceptical of the Americans. The Americans started to openly disdain the Europeans and everybody shittalked the Chinese and Japanese („They are lying about their numbers Anyways.“) My thesis: the danger of international conflict rises and the ability to cooperate in humanities interest sinks linearly with the decrease of international travel. Since many countries can visit each other only via airplane (unless we start researching international HSR & get back ocean liners ^_^), we need more international travel where there is no HSR alternative (Europe only).