Flight Shame // Glamour Magazine

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I just did a calculation that made me feel so sick. I added up the number of flights and air miles I’ve accumulated in the past year to determine my carbon footprint. On my last trip to Brazil alone, to research an ethical clothing manufacturer, I racked up eight flights in eight days, totalling more than 17,000 miles. I’m supposed to be a sustainability blogger – talk about irony.

The Swedish have invented a word for the guilt people like me increasingly feel about their air travel. ‘Flygskam’, which literally translates to ‘flight shame’ in English, means being embarrassed of flying because you’re environmentally ‘woke’ enough to know – and care – that the consequences are detrimental to the planet.

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