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Journalist: "So what do you think long-distance air travel is going to look like in 2050?"

Climate Scientist *laughs derisively*: "By 2050, most long-distance holiday destinations will be uninhabitable, so I expect the majority of long-distance air traffic to be non-existent by 2050."

Phew. Hadn't heard it THAT bleakly during a live interview yet.

@tbaldauf

What is a "long distance holiday destination".

London, Germany, New York are all far away. But so is 99% of the planet

@Br3nda @tbaldauf
And a book tour by train across the country?

Or to a single festival or event if there aren’t others lined up along the route?

There’s no way I can tour my book in North America 😢

There’s bands who have done tone tours by bicycle 🚲

North America is so damn big

Times I wished I lived in Europe 🪗.6

Author readings could so easily be virtual

But I’d miss talking with real people

Maybe pair local author events? Vancouver/Berlin

@AccordionBruce
> North America is so damn big

Bigger than China, where you can get almost anywhere by train, many of them by electric fast train or sleeper train?

@Br3nda @tbaldauf

AccordionBruce

@strypey @Br3nda @tbaldauf

@Geoffberner explained to a European that touring in Canada is something like “Tonight’s gig is in Amsterdam, now drive through a blizzard because our next show is a tiny club in Kazakhstan”

@strypey @Br3nda @tbaldauf @Geoffberner
I heard so many stories of bands having deaths and near deaths driving in winter weather after I moved to Canada 🇨🇦