Solarpunk Travel

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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.

related to sustainable travel:

[email protected] ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
[email protected] ← UK Rail and Trains
[email protected] ← UK public transport

related to travel generally:

[email protected] ← general travel
[email protected] ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
[email protected] ← Europe focus

The communities listed above are decentralized. Centralized instances are omitted as they go against the fedi purpose and it’s better to cultivate digital rights in the free world. That means instances that have a disproportionately large population or are centralized on Cloudflare are not listed.

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Why are flights cheaper than trains in Europe? (www.euronews.com)

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[–] arandomthought 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assume you travel for work? Then it is only fair that the company pay the full price.
If you travel for fun, then you should also pay the full price, there's no need to subsidize your hobby. If you travel for family (which I don't assume because you mention three continents) then that's tough, I agree. But just because we have gotten used to reaching remote places fast doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. We have spoild ourselves on the cost of the common good and now we're facing the consequences.

And I also agree that changes have to be made for cars and construction, too. It's not an "all or nothing" situation, we can take measures in all three of these fields.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for your considered response. I indeed travel for family, which forces me to spend an insane amount of money on travelling costs for the privilege of seeing my children once in a while.

Again, I agree that we should make trains more affordable but not at the expensive of long distance air travel.

Airplanes contribute 2.5 - 3.5% of total emissions

[–] arandomthought 1 points 1 year ago

I see. That's rough and I wish you much strength for your situation as well as the fortune to afford these travels. It sucks that money is the only way to realistically filter who "deserves" to make these journeys but sadly that's the system we're living in.