{"id":131571,"date":"2019-10-04T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/?p=131571"},"modified":"2020-08-12T15:14:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T14:14:25","slug":"geoff-harris-feel-guilty-frequent-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/photo-news\/geoff-harris-feel-guilty-frequent-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we feel guilty about frequent flying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, the inspirational young climate-change protestor Greta Thunberg is in the news again, and recently finished a long sea voyage to the USA rather than jumping on a plane. Whatever your thoughts on the politics of climate change and the tactics of campaigners, even the most ardent global warming denier has to admit that <em>something<\/em> is going on with all these floods and heatwaves.<\/p>\n<p>Since many AP readers will be keen travel or landscape photographers who regularly hop on planes, should we be doing more to reduce the environmental impact of our passion? While I don\u2019t feel guilty about already making several trips to Asia this year, it does make me think. But what are my options?<\/p>\n<h2>Slow boat to China<\/h2>\n<p>I am even more time-poor than I am cash-poor, so taking a slow boat to China isn\u2019t that practical given the demands of helping to run a weekly magazine. While lots of flights over the course of a year are not exactly great for the planet, you can offset it to an extent. A good starting point when booking a flight is to check out how fuel efficient the airline is, so I\u2019ll be using the green travel site, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atmosfair.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">atmosfair.de<\/a>, a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also lots of information online about those airlines which use biofuel, and logic suggests flying in business class is less green than economy, as fewer people are being moved by the same amount of fuel (that\u2019s one thing to feel better about when you are sandwiched between two sumo wrestlers on a long-haul flight to Tokyo).<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-131832 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/group-choice-2-542x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"400\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Flying may be a necessity for travel photographers but it comes at a cost to the planet. Image credit: Geoff Harris<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Flying aside, what more can concerned photographers do when going abroad? Maybe try to get by with your existing travel clothes rather than indulging in a new outfit. The global textile industry produces more carbon emissions than airlines, accounting for around a whopping 8% of global emissions. It\u2019s a start.<\/p>\n<p>Once you arrive, it\u2019s now a lot easier to find environmentally friendly accommodation, even in the developing world. I stayed in a wonderful eco-lodge in Cambodia, which was much more interesting than some bland tourist hotel (I got some good pictures there too). If all this sounds like middle class hand- wringing, I\u2019d point you to a recent story from the highly photogenic Greenland, where an entire community had to be moved because of melting glaciers, not to mention the stricken wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just me. As award-winning travel photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/timbirdphotography.photoshelter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Timothy Bird<\/a> observes, \u2018apart from my conscience, I am fed up with airports and am seriously thinking of travelling overland more by train and bus, getting back into \u201cslow travel\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>So though I regularly travel for photography, its impact is an inconvenient truth I feel I can no longer ignore. Maybe we could start to heed the adage, \u2018the best photographs are often on your doorstep?\u2019<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-131577 size-thumbnail\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Geoff-Harris-2-135x100.jpg\" alt=\"Geoff Harris\" width=\"135\" height=\"100\" \/>Geoff Harris is Deputy Editor of <em>Amateur Photographer <\/em>and a keen travel and documentary photographer in his own right. In 2016, before joining AP, he reached the finals of Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year with an image taken in south India.<\/h3>\n\n\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this column are not necessarily those of Amateur Photographer magazine or TI Media Limited<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re urged to take fewer flights, which raises some big questions for keen travel photographers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":131828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,39,466],"tags":[],"product-category":[],"class_list":["post-131571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-photo-news","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Should we feel guilty about frequent flying? 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