The airlines are magicians. They've positioned flying as a minor part of the environmental crisis using distraction, manipulation and psychology, despite being responsible for about 4 percent of human-made climate change.
In Europe, where you can reach many places by train, the European Commission has taken the airlines to court for greenwashing. Nearly one-fifth of Germans claim to have flown less because of environmental concerns.
My children, ages 11 and 13, have never flown. They agree it's best we take trains and boats to vacation at the seaside and in the mountains, cutting our family's carbon emissions in half.
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