@xvf17 I haven’t stepped foot in an airplane since 2014. And I don’t see any good reasons to change that. I can’t justify the carbon pollution. I can’t stomach the labor abuses. I don’t need to go anywhere that fast. IMHO, the world doesn’t need travel that fast. Nor can we afford it if we want to leave a planet to future generations.
I do miss international travel, and I yearn for a day when we could have safe and ubiquitous airship travel, or at least modern oceangoing passenger ships using wind and solar. Until then, I’m stuck on this continent, and have to choose between its absurdly insufficient passenger rail and bus or going by private automobile.