Hopkins blog on flying reviewed at Treehugger
May 28, 2013
Post Carbon Fellow Rob Hopkins’ recent decision to fly again (albeit only in special cases) drew this response from Sami Grover at Treehugger.
From the article:
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I am 100% convinced that Rob is making the right decision. To be honest, while I applaud his abstinence from flying for personal reasons, I’d even support him if he confessed that he’d decided to fly to visit a family member in Canada, or take a beach vacation in Hawaii.
As I argued recently in my piece on environmental "hypocrisy" being both inevitable and irrelevant, I’ve come to believe that environmentalists talk too much about personal footprints, beating each other up over our supposed transgressions against the ideal of a low carbon lifestyle in a world that encourages the opposite.