I’m off the blog for a couple of days. Be back at the end of the week, from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
I’m looking at houses with an eye to buy for myself but also to take the pulse of the ASEAN market and see if it might survive a possible global recession. I’m betting yes.
And just as a tip — do you think that costs a fortune? No. My RT fare came to 1150….
Not chump change but no more than many middle class families spend on a weekend trip to some banal beach resort.
Your CO2 production for the round trip is approximately SIXTEEN TONS.
I worried about this stuff a lot once…didn’t want to drive a car for a long time…and have never traveled on a plane for holidaying..only in the interests of business or to see my family.
I wish I could just stay in one spot to work, but you can’t….
And I console myself, that just getting rid of a fewer fighter jets would do more than anything else…
besides which I don’t know the science behind these things and am not entirely convinced by it…
I try to be frugal and careful with resources because it is a virtue and not because I particularly think it’s going to lead to the end of the planet if I don’t
By the way, even George Monbiot, who is quite an expert on the politics of climate change, would not agree with you…