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No one has to fly. Luckily 7 billion people don't, or the ecological and climate mess would be even worse. Flying is the new climate denial. Know it's bad and do it anyway, impactoary denial.
A good first step would be recognising the difference between needs and wants
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/life-after-oil/2016/02/11/how-far-can-we-get-without-flying/
>Hour for hour, there’s no better way to warm the planet than to fly in a plane.
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2207886-it-turns-out-planes-are-even-worse-for-the-climate-than-we-thought/
>It turns out planes are even worse for the climate than we thought
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/jul/19/carbon-calculator-how-taking-one-flight-emits-as-much-as-many-people-do-in-a-year
>Taking a long-haul flight generates more carbon emissions than the average person in dozens of countries around the world produces in a whole year,