Personally, I am shocked that the vast majority of people who both call themselves 'environmentalists' and claim to be concerned about, and working on, the issues of our climate crisis refuse to even discuss reduction of air travel.
We cannot measure how the climate crisis is being addressed by the far too often quoted hollow words of leaders and politicians. The only thing that counts is substantive action.

I believe any interurban passenger flight shorter than 2,000 miles should not need to exist, and that reliable, efficient alternatives should be readily accessible to all. As a resident of one of America's heartland extraction states, I argue it is our imperative not only to fight for the earth, but intimately experience it as well. Here's to a ground-bound 2023!

We have watched California and the world transform during the 15 years we have been here. Drought and horrible wildfires that destroyed our favorite State Park (Malibu Creek) have only grown worse and worse during our time here. We do whatever we can to make the situation better. Not Flying is the least we can do!

We think living more sustainably will mean living more sparingly, but in fact we might learn to live more expansively. I began to make more sustainable changes in my life—I experienced how none of the changes were particularly hard and all of them increased the quality of my life. Making conscious choices imbued my daily tasks with grace and have helped me take a deeper pleasure in living. My last flight was in 2013.

We pledge to fly less and only to occasionally visit family in Europe. Friends in the USA can meet us at Amtrak! We are fortunate to live in a cycling town which allows us to use our car less. This is just one of the ways we contribute to the cause of climate justice and to a better world for those who come after us.

I really dislike flying commercial airlines (and LOVE the planet!), so this is a no-brainer! But I love to travel...

My grandchildren deserve a world without climate change. I plan to travel by train.

There’s pride to be had in rising up to the biggest challenge of our day and making an individual contribution. So that when your kids grow up and ask you “where were you when the world was falling apart”, you’ll have a story. What greater purpose than that can there be.

I pledged to not fly from 2019 through 2023 in order to reduce global carbon emissions, reduce fossil fuel consumption, reduce global spread of pandemics, and reduce my chances of catching a virus.

Why flight free?

As we say on the Big Island: I stay here!

I will Amtrak or stay put. I've also hitchhiked extensively and can do more. All of my needs can be fulfilled within North America. Burning fossil fuels to leave the continent is ridiculous.

I look at our planet as a gift from GOD and not flying is a form of honoring GODS gift. Our air, water and soil are gifts to be stewarded. Christians and other faith communities should be leading the way on changing our cultural systems as a form of worship.

There is magic to traveling patiently and slowly. I don't have a car, so I bike, walk, use public transit or rideshare to get where I need to go. This likely means I go fewer places, but it also means I actually process my location in the world, where I am going, and the materiality of getting there. It's only natural to extend these habits to avoiding flying.

I have not travelled by plane since 2019. My reasons for using other means of transportation are not only concern for the climate. It is my hope that if more people use trains and other forms of transport, the change in popularity might also be followed by changes in infrastructure and costs.

I haven't flown since learning of Greta Thunberg's refusal to fly across the Atlantic, opting instead to travel by sailboat, back in 2019. If she can find climate friendly ways to get where she needs to go, so can I! Employers want me to come to company parties, for which I'm supposed to travel by plane. Or they want me to travel for quarterly planning, other such things. I simply say no and explain why I feel that damaging the climate to go to a party or participate in a planning exercise is frivolous, and so far no one has pressed me further.

I have flown once since 2018. I drive an EV about 2,500 miles a year and am currently planning my second trip to New York via Amtrak. The train ride from Cincinnati is about 18 hours, but traveling in a sleeper car is truly enjoyable, providing time to read, think, sleep and just watch the country pass by.

There aren’t many things I can do to help regarding climate change as one individual. This, for me, was a no brainer. I thought it would feel like a huge sacrifice since I have historically been a world traveler. Nope.

I think some people might see not flying at will as a sacrifice. But if it is, it's one that you can only make if you are privileged enough to have the option of flying in the first place. And it's a relatively small step I can take to try to mitigate what I've already done.

I am flight free this year for my son’s future! Our goal is to fly no more than one trip every other year. This is our off year.

I am human. I am ambulatory, nomadic, and curious. I live in the West, but my family lives in the East. That's what Skype and Facetime are for. Any true relationship accommodates distance…