Tag: flight shaming

Over the past few years, there has been a growing concern over how we can protect our planet. This has spawned a completely eco-friendly frenzy. The figurehead of this movement is the 17-year old Swedish, Greta Thungberg. She has made it her number one priority to fix climate change, and one of her biggest targets is the aviation industry, through something called flight shaming. What is flight shaming? Flight shaming is where people, mainly celebrities and public figures, are attacked on social media (and in the media) for taking a flight in a private jet. Activists believe that private jets should be banned, alongside business and first classes on commercial airliners. They believe that an all-economy configuration, as seen in many low cost European carriers, is the way forward. Thi...