This is true. I'd just go to a local protest. :-)

On the topic of holidays, I was kinda gutted when the lady who raised my awareness to the devastating reality of the climate crisis (when the experts gave us 10 years to fix it), took a flight to the Canary Islands for her holidays two weeks later. Admittedly, it's not the other side of the world, but my heart sank so badly when I saw that on Facebook. 😥 She'd literally just given me a DVD to watch that said air travel is the worst thing you can do.

Then there was this 14 year old climate activist (not Greta) raging about evil ‘adults’ on YouTube, while telling us she’d flown to Borneo to see the Orangutans and how awful it was that they’re under threat. It was a holiday.

If someone’s doing something about these things, I can see merit in the journey — not so much when they take holidays then come back and preach to the rest of us. Perhaps her holiday helped fund conservation or something.

I reckon at that last COP meeting in Glasgow, local environmentalists could have rallied enough of their friends from around the UK to make a statement, without individuals flying in from all across the world. But that’s just me thinking out loud.