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If people are forced to move away from their families for economic reasons and then travel back and forth that is not their fault, it's a problem with society/business at large. We wouldn't have this problem if we had a carbon tax or cap & trade or something. You could move away from your family but you pay the environmental cost when you travel. If the salary increase is worth the increased cost of travel then it makes sense to move, otherwise stay where you are. Job done. A direct financial cost is the best way to make people aware of the impacts of their choices.
I dispute that flying within the UK is necessary.
Sorry if I overreacted!
frankenbike
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“Moving to Italy away from your family is a choice, and anyone who actually cares about climate change should think about the cost to the environment when making that sort of decision“
Perhaps in that case yes, but not everyone that lives away from parents is because their parents retired elsewhere.
Personally there were no suitably appealing jobs with a salary commensurate to my skills where I grew up, so I came to London (my choice) for a career primarily. The environmental impacts of living far away from parents didn’t really feature as part of that decision (almost 15 years ago), way below making a livelihood or convenience/cost of being far away, for example.
Yet I don’t own a car, don’t really eat red meat, recycle as much as possible, buy lots of things used, don’t subscribe to “fast fashion” and so on. I try. I also bought a Greggs vegan sausage roll the other day.
But flying back home here and there is unavoidable and I won’t drive or get the train. Don’t be silly.
Wow there’s no sense of humour in this thread, maybe it doesn’t translate that well in which case I apologise. If you’d flown to a few more culturally different places maybe you’d have a better understanding that “sense of humour” is in fact...cultural. Anyway , carry on.