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I don't think this is the right way to think about it. People think this can be solved by individual action, but it cannot. Flying is not something you can unilaterally not do even though it seems like it. It creates an inconvenience for you, which you might well tolerate, but also inconveniences for other people, which they will not tolerate. It puts those people off and makes them less likely to hear your message.
It really matters to hear it from the top. From the president. For some other position of societal authority. Because everything you do, if society is not demanding it of you may draw attention to you, but only as an activist and obstructor. Your family will hate you I will point to other families who do not do that. People behind you in line at the supermarket will be annoyed at you. In every situation you are the bad guy. And this is not advance the cause.
Having our leaders tell us that we have to do this is not a matter of authority but of norm setting. It transforms you from an activist to a conformist, from someone only interested in themselves pissing off everybody else into somebody interested in society and willing to do what it takes to make society happy. Transforms you into a role model instead of an embarrassment.
Not flying right now does not serve the overall purpose because it causes people to trench in on everything not just flying. Because it's anyone who cares to be seen as an absurdist and someone who doesn't get it and someone who isn't helping society at all. Leaders have to say it's finally time for these people to be seen as normal and for the people who might object to be seen as the obstructionist.
Then when you don't take your family on vacation, no one will be taking their family on vacation, or should be, and no new station will be reporting income shortfalls has something unexpected or disruptive that has to be corrected, but is something expected that has to be worked around by possibly even other policy.
Isolated action would be pointless. Worse than pointless. Amd those people know it. So while we might all wish that your analysis was correct, I say with all due respect that it simply is not. There is a missing intermediate action leaders being strong enough to say we're all in it and if they can't say it, it's not the people flying the planes that are causing a problem.
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