Maude NificentMar 10

someone who doesn’t know/care enough about climate change
has booked a holiday and feels aggrieved the consequences of war are spread too far 🙄
western leaders (including australia’s) should be more thoughtful about whose lives they are ruining

ABC newsletter quote of the day:
"We stand to lose everything we have paid because of the war, because travel insurance doesn't cover it.”

okay, i don’t have enough money myself to travel far, but if i did, i couldn’t do it any more. greta thunberg set the bar pretty high — she put her actions where her mouth is, travelling by yacht when world leaders still thought they could silence her with photo opportunities.

not to mention, when you get older and your body parts start toppling like a row of dominoes, the cost of medical travel insurance (chockers with exclusion clauses) should be enough to put anyone off.
[i met someone ages ago who was in her 30s when she had a car accident in greece, and the unexpected care needed cost her her house. so many stories about uninsured travel…]

and yeah, the abc is the one framing this story as “war is inconvenient for the rest of us too”, but there is something rather phukt about this article
the tone of it seems disproportionate.

#Auspol #Travel #WarIsInconvenientForLivingThings
#ShitJournalism
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-11/europe-summer-trips-flights-australian-travel-middle-east/106435894

Asian hubs boom as Aussies avoid Middle East airspace

Flights in limbo, a region at war, and thousands of dollars lost with no end in sight — Aussie travellers are going to extreme lengths to keep their hopes of a European holiday alive despite the dire circumstances.

Show threadRaymondPierreL3
@maudenificent
Agree completely with your view. Overseas holiday travel is a luxury we ought not to indulge in any more until ways are found to drastically cut the environmental costs. We simply cannot afford to phuk up the planet any further. It’s a matter of survival now… (not that that would stop the #FilthyRich #Grifters)
BTW, we can no longer afford to have #Wars either, they are a massive drain on finite resource and the combined pollution effects are cutting decades off life resources on this planet.
Mar 11 at 12:14amWeb
Show threadMaude NificentMar 11

@RaymondPierreL3
yes!
and as well as the pollution level of war, there are the human and financial costs

instead of spending billions to create refugees/ asylum seekers, it would be cheaper and better to absorb displaced people into our economies, and ditch the “we can’t afford to let you in”nonsense.

current figures on un website:
At the end of June 2024, 122.6 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced from their homes due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order.
Among those were 43.7 million refugees, (32 million refugees under UNHCR's mandate, and 6 million Palestine refugees under UNRWA's mandate). There were also 72.1 million internally displaced people and 8 million asylum seekers.

Show threadRaymondPierreL3Mar 11
@maudenificent
That shouldn’t so hard for the 8billion plus to absorb.
Show threadMaude NificentMar 12

@RaymondPierreL3

agree.. it shouldn’t be