If one invention in mankind’s history has connected people and places, helped raise the standard of living for billions of people, and allowed anyone to travel the world freely, it is the modern jet airliner. Yet environmental activists are now sprouting another offshoot of the “global warming” movement to recklessly contract and diminish this advancement in human ingenuity because they fret over aircraft as one of the most “carbon-intensive” forms of travel.
Your new word for the day is “flygskam” (pronounced: “fleeg-skam”). It is a Swedish word introduced by the nascent — still mostly European — environmental movement to “flight-shame” travelers into refraining from taking flights to lower carbon emissions.
Read more at: American Thinker
