This is the season of flygskam, or “flight shame.” You don’t have to be Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate activist who recently announced plans to sail to New York in August, to recognize that a growing number of Europeans eager to reduce their carbon footprint are opting to limit air travel in favor of more environmentally-friendly means of transportation.The counterpart of flygskam is tagskryt, or train-bragging, notes Abend. European counties and private rail companies are responding the new cultural milieu by considering the return of long distance night-time trains.
The cultural trend is aided by two grassroots initiatives: "Flygfritt, which convinced 14,500 Swedes to renounce air travel in 2019 (it’s shooting for 100,000 in 2020) and Tagsemester, a Facebook group with nearly 100,000 members, that offers information on how to travel by train."
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I have pretty much given up flying, I do it when there is no alternative and I have to be somewhere but much prefer trains. Have flown less than 10 times in the last 10 years. Wish it were zero.
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