Interesting perspective on flying

[Charles Chester]

Hi GEP-eders,

I forwarded the information provided by Jonas Schoenefeld (thank you!) to my faculty-climate email list at Brandeis, over which there has been some discussion—also sometimes a bit contentious—of flying’s carbon impact. I noted that there had been a fairly debate on gep-ed over flying, and received back an interesting response from one individual that I thought worth sharing:   

A few months back I tried to organize a climate finance panel at an anthropology conference, but we were unable to get enough participants because of people's concern about flying more than their carbon quota for that year. 

To register for the conference you had to be there in person, so increased climate consciousness on the part of my colleagues resulted in less climate change research being represented at the main anthropology conference in North America. 

I submit this not as an advocate for flying, but as someone who flies all the time for non-academic reasons, feels guilty about it, can’t figure out a way to stop, and so is unavoidably receptive to justifications for it…. 

Happy summer everyone,

Charlie Chester

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