From elegant sufficiency
Over on Facebook, Jarrod McKenna has posed a question. Jarrod asks:Q. What do u think of flying in light of climate change?
Yep, I want 2 hear ur thoughts be u
an activist, nurse, teacher, theologian, student or garbo [wo]man...
What do u think/do?
I have made a couple of responses which probably look and sound like a prude giving Jarrod a hard time. So I thought I would make my views properly.
Now, I remembered that Arthur Boyd hated air travel. He would travel between the UK and Australia by ship and, I think, he used cargo ships - the sort that take about 12 passengers. So I googled to confirm this memory but discovered something far better.
The Wood family are out of a long ago past of mine. Stephanie is a wonderful foodie and journalist and runs one Australia's best blogs which certainly lives up to its name elegant sufficiency. On occasion, her father - Peter Wood who with his twin brother Bill used to be an ALP member of Parliament in Queensland in the dreadful Bjelke Petersen years - strays into the blog and I discovered one of Peter's perambulations right here.
Networkers you must read this travelogue of a shipboard journey from Australia to the UK. It is a classic. In fact, Peter, I think Stephanie ought to take to scriptwriting and do the movie with you as technical adviser It is life on another planet in a manner beyond comprehension in this day and age. I wonder what the P&O carbon footprint was back in the 1950's. What did they do with the waste? And then there was all the cigarette smoke!
Related Reading:
Sites
Sites
The Theory of Anyway
Flightless Travel: explore new horizons
Books
Flightless: Incredible Journeys Without Leaving the Ground
Slow Travel and Tourism (Tourism, Environment and Development)
Flightless Travel: explore new horizons
Books
Flightless: Incredible Journeys Without Leaving the Ground
Slow Travel and Tourism (Tourism, Environment and Development)
