I was intrigued to read about an Easyjet captain being signed off with stress and anxiety after sleepless nights worrying about the effect airlines are having on the planet, along with all the rest of what we do on a daily basis. As the man on the AMOC video pointed out, civilisations are less able to react ~ and ultimately survive ~ to changes that proceed gradually, as against those like an inbound meteor which advertise their arrival.
At British Midland we'd a co-pilot in Teesside who annoyed one captain in particular for having lost his nerve and being unable to take flight; instead paid to kick around the office pursuing gentler pastimes like photocopying. It is I think a reason why both pilots getting signed off for whatever reason and conscientious objectors are deeply unpopular: because it's the rest of us having to recover the dead bodies on a daily basis instead.
Whilst a drop in the ocean and a piss into the wind, the organisation he has joined is a worthy cause which I can only applaud. I've flown rich, dirty old men* with young ladies in an executive jet to Nice for lunch and had friends do the same albeit in Pisa with giveaway flights on Ryanair.
In neither case was the cost to the environment or our eventual well-being factored into an economics equation that appears ever less fit for purpose.
I would join myself, except for the fact that after 15,000 flying hours it would look too much like a death-bed conversion?
* Ed. He's only jealous.
