Walk...

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

Slightly larger elucidation at its source.

I'm stuck somewhere in the whole quandary between the merits of expanding one's horizons, experiencing as much as possible of this wonderful world and preventing a dangerously introspective 'the-world-within-our-borders' view... and the blindingly obvious chronic effects of aeroplanes.

• They are cheap. And being cheap is (or should be) never a good enough reason for anything. But then we always have limits.
• They are fast. But also having/doing everything fast is eroding our life, making us less appreciative of anything, let alone anything we have to go to greater effort to achieve. But we only have so many opportunities.
• They are exciting! Yes, well, nothing wrong with that. Does augment the dismissal of the problems though.
• ...etc

With all this talk of aeroplane pollution, and having a rough figure of cars being a tenth of the emmisions (despite trains being something like a tenth of that again), I feel slightly more willing to think about learning to drive. Doesn't mean I don't still cultivate occasional dreams of a [insert clean fuel here] powered Morris Minor for journeys when walking, cycling or trains are not options.