Take a big step to reduce your carbon footprint - take the Operation Noah No Fly Pledge today!

Follow this link to take the pledge. (Note: you will need to login or, if you are not yet a registered member of operationnoah.org, you will need to register to take the pledge. The pledge will then show up on your profile page.)

Read this article by George Monbiot to learn more about the science behind flying and carbon emissions.

Join Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Bishop of London Richard Chartres, Operation Noah board chair Revd David Pickering and many others by pledging today that you will not fly for the next 12 months (save for family emergencies and possibly for business) and encourage your friends and family to do so as well. While you're at it, please go here to leave your comments and stories and let us know about the impact that not flying has had on your life or alternatives that you are planning rather than flying for your holidays.

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if we were meant to fly.....

Submitted by ruth jarman on Wed, 16/07/2008 - 21:58.
....we'd have been given wings. For me, it was not a hard decision not to fly. Knowing what I know about the climate impact of a flight, considering the trivial, selfish, short-lived benefits of a holiday abroad, looking at the shear size of a plane and trying to imagine how much energy it must take to get that lump of metal and all those people and all their luggage off the ground, knowing that by "seeing the world" I would be choosing to destroy it (there must be some Greek Myth or Quantum mechanical theory that describes that predicament), not flying is not actually a choice I made, it is something that I just couldn't imagine getting myself to do - the thought is almost revolting. Other green choices are actually harder for me - upgrading our fridge and cooker and boiler - I know we should, but we haven't ever quite got round to it. Choosing to NOT do something seems a lot easier than spending money to do something - there should be hope for the planet there....
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