July 6, 2023, a Thursday and marked in the calendar in Germany as “Roast Chicken Day”, but internationally as “Kiss Day”, was also a very special day in the history of civil aviation. Never before since the days of the first aviation pioneers were there so many passenger planes in the air within twenty-four hours – according to the calculations of the Flightradar24 platform, there were an impressive 134,386 aircraft in that one day. And this didn’t even include private jets and cargo planes.
Despite inflation, economic concerns and a climate heated by staunch climate activists, people are clearly flying again with great enthusiasm. Even huge price hikes by airlines do not change the fact that flying has become almost a basic need for many people, which is fulfilled wherever possible.
However, this new obsession with flying is a crushing defeat for all the revelers, climate glue and thin-lipped abandonment campaigners who have wanted to spoil flying for us for years. And so convince yourself that, in the wake of climate change, air travel is practically a serious crime and anyone who does it should feel at the very least severe “flying embarrassment.” To the high priests of the Climactic sect, flying is something like what masturbation was to the village priest in the Middle Ages – publicly condemned, but practiced with pleasure in private.
The fact that most people do not feel even an amount of “shyness about flying”, but on the contrary, they enjoy flying, I think is a very welcome development for many reasons.
First: Because it shows that a refreshingly large group of people are quite immune to the re-education efforts of leftist and green social engineers who seek to explain to them what is good for them and what is not. Instead, they pursue their interests and inclinations as they wish and do not allow themselves to be “shamed for flight” or put into panic mode, as Greta Thunberg once described as the goal of their work.
Apart from flying, I think this is a healthy attitude, which gives hope that the Bobo teacher will also fail miserably on other similar topics, for example when in the near future we have to stop eating bloody T-bones or delicious veal liver. Trying to keep their homes as warm as they want in the winter, or driving around in a well-maintained SUV, preferably powered by a combustion engine.
Second: Because the ability to fly, especially over long distances, was one of the most outstanding civilizational achievements of modern industrial societies. Especially when the capitalist competitive economy has made flying affordable for the masses. It has also made it possible for the socially disadvantaged to do what was previously reserved for the super-rich, the elite, and other minorities – to get to know other cultures, other languages, and other customs, and to experience natural wonders, landscapes, and cities. trace. In a way that was completely unimaginable to common people before.
Being able to fly where you want is a big part of the good life, especially for young people. Pushing it back would be an incredible step backwards.
third: Being able to fly has always been synonymous with freedom in political terms. It is no coincidence that until 1989, in countries where socialism actually existed, people were forbidden by the state from getting on a plane or jet to go to London, Majorca or Tel Aviv.
For those who suffered under communism, flight was always a political longing that was not only about a boring change of place, but always about freedom.
In my opinion, there are enough reasons to welcome the new desire to fly – and to consider the two to three percent share of this type of travel in the total global emissions of climate-damaging gases as collateral damage that the industry causes. is acceptable until it is developed. New fuels which will solve this problem to a great extent.
With that in mind – have a nice flight, enjoy it and don’t let it spoil your fun.
