These three families gave up flying to reduce their emissions. Here's how it's shaping their relationship to people and places.
an individual can do. That’s why some families are vowing to stay on the ground and give up flying for the sake of their children’s futures, and the futures of children all over the world.
One of the biggest challenges was that her family had relatives in Michigan, a short plane ride away but “a haul by car.” A 14-hour haul, to be exact, with a small baby. Still, Leswing and her husband decided to drive and turn it into an adventure. “We stopped at Niagara Falls on the way back and stayed in a hotel,” she says. The trip had an unexpected effect: Katherine’s father-in-law, after a discussion with Leswing about flight emissions, decided to buy an electric truck.
Still, as an avid traveler, giving up flying was a big transition; “I love to travel. I felt like, is this part of my identity gone forever?” Katherine says she doesn’t tell herself that she’ll never fly again, she just asks herself if she needs to take a particular flight or if there’s a more climate-friendly way to get the experience she’s seeking.For Valerie Milner-Brown, giving up flying has come at a high cost.
Milner-Brown’s family has mixed feelings about her choice. “Some of my daughters feel I don’t care about them as I used to and so I have made a choice which puts them second to the cause,” she says. “Ironically, it's the opposite: I love them so much and I fight for their safe future every moment of my life now.” Milner-Brown says she’s trying to convince her daughter in the US that flying to the UK uses less carbon than having the entire UK family fly to the US.
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