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Excessive travel is terrible for the environment. You can easily generate many times the amount of carbon dioxide you would emit by driving for a year, simply
by cmccabe 13y ago
Excessive travel is terrible for the environment. You can easily generate many times the amount of carbon dioxide you would emit by driving for a year, simply by taking a long plane flight or two.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/sunday-review/the-biggest-carbon-sin-air-travel.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/sunday-review/the-biggest-...
Travel is nice, but not when you do it just to brag about having gone to X countries in Y days. Then it just becomes a status thing, and is, as the author notes, "kind of douchey." The internet, good news sources, and documentaries can broaden your horizons even without leaving the house.
- sobri 13y agoAlways take trains overland. Flying should be reserved only for trips that cross water. Besides, travelling by train is much more fun.
- khuey 13y agoUnfortunately not always a realistic option (exhibit A: North America).
- wpietri 13y agoWhy's that? I have a friend who travels mostly by train in the US. She seems pretty happy with it. It takes time, but she's got a laptop and an outlet, so she's happy.
- pessimizer 13y agoI do it in North America. Every long trip needs two days of padding on each side, but people make allowances for you as if you had a phobia of flying. When all of your business trips become taking the Amtrak in a Roomette to your B&B, business travel becomes a lot less stressful.
- goblin89 13y agoIn certain places travelling by train can be a bit too much fun. If it's USA or Japan (trains have Wi-Fi or distances are small, and it's safe)—sure, no reason to fly.
- pessimizer 13y agoTrains don't have Wi-Fi in the US.
- goblin89 13y agoOh. Never been to US myself, thanks for the correction. Is there at least an outlet for your laptop and decent 4G/3G coverage on the whole trip? (Compare to Russia, where traveling anywhere remote by train means you might be completely lost to the world for a few days.)
- wan23 13y agohttp://www.amtrak.com/journey-with-wi-fi-train-station http://www.amtrak.com/journey-with-wi-fi-train-station
- resu 13y agoThat's like saying you can attain a black belt in Karate by reading instruction manuals and watching training videos. Absolutely not. You broaden your horizens by interacting with what's around you when you travel, whether that's physical, social, cultural, spiritual etc. Nothing in print or virtual can replace that, just as when you learn a new martial art. If you take some time to actually travel for the sake for the experience and not for the bragging rights, you'd realize how ridiculous that statement sounds.