To go abroad for one day?

"You wouldn’t spunk 10% of your annual income on a day out, why would you spunk 10% of your carbon footprint?"

That's a lot of spunk 🤢

Ah, the good old days when we were younger, energetic and worked for an airline ☺️.
Go for it!

Is the bad taste in the mouth from the carbon or the spunking?

Of course it's a joke 😁

Yep do it. I’m planning Venice for the day :)

Would you like her to (pretend on the internet to) plant a fucking tree or something?

I used to do this back in my 20s when I lived near Cambridge. Had some great trips. Airport travel seemed less complicated/quicker than it is 30 years on though.

Honestly I’ll get a lot of heat for saying this but I do this regularly. My husband is a pilot and if he has a layover in a Western European city I’ll often go for less than 24 hours. A nice dinner and a walk around in the morning with a coffee/pastry is about as much as I can manage on most trips

The more times you go, the lower the percentage of each

That’s a joke, right? I hope it’s a joke.

I do get it - I love travelling. But if you’re that interested in your destination then surely you should stay longer, not try to rush in and out in a day? You’d be getting more out of it and contributing more to the local economy. Savouring fewer, longer, trips is a better travel experience and more sustainable.

I can manage without your respect and accept our opinions on this differ.

...not one of which appeals to.me in the slightest. I'd rather have go and meander somewhere, eating, seeing, smelling and hearing difference.

The more times you go, the lower the percentage of each.

I’d have more respect for someone saying “I simply don’t care about climate change” than those trying to convince themselves that they can justify flying across Europe for a one day jaunt. “But other people are worse!” “But I think about the environment in other ways!”. Just own it: being able to spend 8 hours in the sun for a bargain price is more important to you than climate change. That’s selfish but at least it’s morally consistent.

You've no idea how I 'spend' the rest of my carbon footprint so I'm not going to lose sleep over causing a bad taste in your mouth ....

I’ve not done the maths but I think you could probably spend the entire year carefully reducing your carbon footprint by minimising food miles, eliminating unnecessary tat from your purchases and then spunk the entire lot up the wall for the sake of a one day jaunt. You’d have to buy a LOT of shit from Temu to rack up the carbon footprint of a flight.

The thing that I hate about the extreme day trips phenomenon is that it’s just so gratuitous - people seem to be doing them almost as a bit of challenge and because it’s enticingly cheap, rather than for any good reason.

Someone mentioned that they might be doing one day trips to visit their DD, others mentioned a special concert or to visit somewhere they had always wanted to see. I don’t really have a problem with that. But doing it just for bragging rights or as a bit of a minor novelty leaves a bad taste in my mouth - “I went to Spain for the day and it only cost me £40!”.

You wouldn’t spunk 10% of your annual income on a day out, why would you spunk 10% of your carbon footprint?

I just wouldn’t give a shit! Simple.

I did a day abroad but I went by ferry so had the nights either side on the ferry, which meant I got a nice sleep and a good buffet breakfast, enjoyed the day abroad (Sweden in my case) then back on the ferry in the evening for another buffet, and a good sleep, and breakfast again. Ferry was cheaper than staying in a hotel.

Disgusting attitude

Exactly.
The largest contribution to climate change are the US and China, by massive margins. But yet some keep trying to guilt trip people in the UK (contributing less than 1% global emissions) from travelling (2% global emissions). Instead of going after large corporations, international governments, reducing beef consumption, and all the actual large CO2 contributers. But I guess appearing self righteous on social media is more important. Side note: I hope they aren't using Google considering their massive footprint due to AI!

....and make sure you don't buy green beans from Kenya or cheap Chinese shit from Amazon or tat from Temu (shipped directly from China)....

I have done Amsterdam - London - Amsterdam and the only way it really worked for me is because I was a Londoner living in Amsterdam, thus I knew London really well. It would have been very stressful and time consuming acclimatising and getting around a city i didn’t know. The flight time was 40 minutes and London City Airport was my airport of choice.

And how will you be off-setting the shit carbonfootprint?

A single shorthaul round trip adds about 10% to the average person’s annual carbon footprint - that’s not trivial.

If you’ve got £100 burning a hole in your pocket and a day to spare, almost anything is better than taking an extreme day trip. Visit a spa, go tee a show, have afternoon tea at a fancy hotel.