International Traveller

Mindful Matters

In February, I travelled on a plane for the first time in two-and-ahalf years. That might not seem like much, given the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, except that in 2018 it seemed entirely normal for me to fly to Antarctica, Botswana, East Timor, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kenya, Spain, Vietnam and back in a single year. Sure, the job of a travel writer demands a high volume of travel, but just thinking of all that fossil fuel burning now makes my stomach churn.

I received some rather shrill ecological wake-up calls during the pandemic; I think most of us did. When I read those reports, during the first

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