... for I have sinned. \u00a0It is over 4 years since my last confession.<\/p>\n
On that occasion you'll remember I flew \u2013 by air \u2013 to Maderia, and now I have sinned again by flying to Belfast when I could easily have gone by bus, train, bus, boat and train. \u00a0Well, perhaps not \"easily\". \u00a0At least this time my excuse is that it was for work, unlike in 2019 when it was for sheer self-indulgent frivolity with no thought for the common weal, ie, a holiday.<\/p>\n
Of course, two one and a bit hour flights are nothing in the great scheme of things, especially if averaged over 4 years, so it\u2019s not really a great sin as sins go \u2013 and I did travel from the Belfast George Best airport to the city by bus. \u00a0Of course, on the precautionary principle I said a few Hail Gretas<\/em> before I went, to appease you a little, so I hope forgiveness will soon be forthcoming. \u00a0If not, I've got a rolled-up copy of the green party manifesto ready to beat myself unmercifully with should you so desire<\/p>\n In mitigation, I should say that it\u2019s not just any old work, but an endeavour to advance global environmental education which could hardly be a more important cause and surely one where spending carbon might be justified. \u00a0Indeed, maybe my annual carbon budget should be augmented with a few airkms<\/em> so that I get to go to more of these crucial meetings.<\/p>\n After all, environmental educators are making such a huge difference to your welfare ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ... for I have sinned. \u00a0It is over 4 years since my last confession. On that occasion you'll remember I flew \u2013 by air \u2013 to Maderia, and now I have sinned again by flying to Belfast when I could...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}