Make a Flight Free Pledge!
Could you choose to take a year off flying?
Flight Free UK is asking people to pledge to stay grounded for the climate, to inspire social change and to influence system change. At a time when we need to slash our emissions, flying less is the quickest and easiest way to reduce our carbon footprint. Could you pledge to have a flight-free year? Sign the pledge.
The Flight Free website is absolutely not about guilt-tripping you into not flying. Instead it inspires and equips us with all the information and motivation we need to simply want to stay grounded. Why not make a flight free pledge as the baseline for all your 2026 choices?
There are four examples of pledge:
- Flight free in 2026 (default)
- No holiday flights in 2026
- No more flights within Europe
- Flight free for life!
Comments on "Make a Flight Free Pledge!"
Iain Climie:
I've only done two round trips (both business, one to the USA and one from Southampton to Glasgow & back) since 2007 (!) but this is probably more to do with stinginess than anything else - I haven't had a proper holiday since 2008 (ferry to NW Spain) so I'm not overly virtuous. This year I really fancied a break and look what happened.The claim that less flying is the most effective approach would be disputed by a Lund University study although its results won't be popular. Having few if any kids is the most effective idea apparently (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/03/farming-and-humanity-versus-the-environment) although a real cynic might suggest that taking up dangerous sports on retirement is another option.The great unmentionables on population are that well-off Western lifestyles are massively more destructive than those of (say) a Malawian subsistence farmer while human numbers will only fall if deaths exceed births. Paul Ehrlich wrote "the population bomb" in 1968 but I believe qualified it later by noting that a typical well-off US 2+2 household could have the impact of a small Bangladeshi village; the latter point is less pleasant as we can all gripe about other people, their kids and bad habits but contemplating our own mortality, even with religious faith, is much harder. After all, would anyone really turn down scientific advances allowing us to live healthily to 110? Yet the benefits would surely be grabbed by those with well-off high-impact lifestyles.John Wyndham foresaw this in "The Trouble with Lichen" many years ago; there aren't really easy answers though.
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