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Definition: Flight Shaming, Train Bragging, Multi-passionate

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I should have known there was a term for flight shaming. Just about everything else has a shaming word these days, it seems.

With the third term, multi-passionate, that’s very core to my identity and I’m glad there is a word for it!

 

Flight Shaming

Social movement to inform people of the heavy environmental impact of flying to possibly find alternatives

 

Train Bragging

Social movement to show off travel by train rather than by plane for climate change benefits

 

 

https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1223036333293277187

 

https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1223048748395307008

The Food Miles Myth – Eat Local for the Economy, Not the Environment

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Food miles is a nice concept for awareness, but a meaningless and impractical ideal to believe in for eating local. Eat local for the economy, not the environment. It doesn’t sound as “romantic”, to idealize something for money rather than for the Earth. However, you’re likely idealizing something you wouldn’t be able to prove to be true.

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