A climate researcher who was fired from his job for refusing to take a flight back from a work trip has been awarded compensation in court for unfair dismissal. Gianluca Grimalda has been reducing his air travel since 2010. But in 2023, his employer, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) in Germany, terminated […]
  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 day ago

    Huge respect for the man but

    His research trip in 2023 meant taking 40 days to travel from Europe to Bougainville and 72 days to return. According to his calculations, carbon emissions from this slow 28,000-kilometer (17,400-mile) round trip was 10 times lower than flying.

    Taking 50x the travel time to safe 10x in emissions… I don’t think I have it in me. I accept to replace a 45 minutes flight with 7-10 hours of train (and do it often) but that’s about the limit of my sanity.