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"I am a 45-year-old who has done his fair share of air travel. Having witnessed undeniable climate change (due, in part, to airplanes), I have sworn them off..."

"... and encourage others to do the same. My dear cousin plans to send her young son to Paris by plane to participate in a summer camp. May I encourage her not to?"

So goes a letter to the NYT social etiquette adviser. 

This is an issue so many people — people who love to think of themselves as hawkish on climate-change — desperately seek to avoid. The letter writer has gone very far into vigilance. He's not flying at all anymore, AND he wants to pressure others to adopt his form of austerity.

Of course the NYT adviser is going to try to wriggle out of it. He can't deny that "we face a climate crisis," but he says it's "blinkered" to "focus[e] only on commercial air travel — without considering any other element of our carbon footprints." Though the letter-writer never said he was only focusing on air travel, he was advised to "keep quiet about camp" and not spoil the (highly privileged) kid's summer camp trip.  Just "try to engage your cousin in the larger climate project, instead."

Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is why nothing ever gets done. Everyone returns to the general abstract level of Many Expansive Things Will Need to Be Done to avoid taking responsibility for the specific thing they happen to want to do right now. 

By the way, why does a little kid need to go to summer camp in Paris?! Isn't this more of a stroking of the mother's ego than it is any real benefit to the boy? 

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"... and encourage others to do the same. My dear cousin plans to send her young son to Paris by plane to participate in a summer camp. May I encourage her not to?"

So goes a letter to the NYT social etiquette adviser. 

This is an issue so many people — people who love to think of themselves as hawkish on climate-change — desperately seek to avoid. The letter writer has gone very far into vigilance. He's not flying at all anymore, AND he wants to pressure others to adopt his form of austerity.

Of course the NYT adviser is going to try to wriggle out of it. He can't deny that "we face a climate crisis," but he says it's "blinkered" to "focus[e] only on commercial air travel — without considering any other element of our carbon footprints." Though the letter-writer never said he was only focusing on air travel, he was advised to "keep quiet about camp" and not spoil the (highly privileged) kid's summer camp trip.  Just "try to engage your cousin in the larger climate project, instead."

Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is why nothing ever gets done. Everyone returns to the general abstract level of Many Expansive Things Will Need to Be Done to avoid taking responsibility for the specific thing they happen to want to do right now. 

By the way, why does a little kid need to go to summer camp in Paris?! Isn't this more of a stroking of the mother's ego than it is any real benefit to the boy? 

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