Vietnam, Vienna, Vanuatu – they’re all very beautiful places, but do we have to burn fossil fuels to visit them? In a lovely article in The Times, Chris Haslam reviews twenty of his favourite websites for travel escapism at a time of Coronavirus, and I’m curious how far these stimulate or satiate my desire to […]
Author: jamesmanktelow
Why do we Fly? Here are 28 Reasons…
Why do we fly? And why does this matter? It matters, because if we know what really motivates us to travel, then we can try to “scratch the travel itch” without generating tons of CO2. So, here are 28 reasons why we love (or need) to travel: To learn and challenge ourselves: To learn new […]
Why UnFly?
We all want to “save the planet” by fighting climate change. So why do we still jet away each year, maybe one or two or three times, with all of the CO2 emissions that go with this? I think that travel meets deep human needs within us, part evolutionary, part practical, part psychological. By understanding […]