Comments on: Crossing the line https://praxistheatre.com/2013/03/crossing-the-line/ Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:16:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: Michael Wheeler https://praxistheatre.com/2013/03/crossing-the-line/comment-page-1/#comment-16016 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:07:09 +0000 https://praxistheatre.com/?p=12120#comment-16016 I agree flying is a bit of a fading luxury we can no longer afford. I think our kids will think it was crazy we just flew wherever we liked. The carbon footprint flying creates and the increasing costs of fossil fuels we need to get off of to survive, probably means we are at the tail-end of the casual aviation era.

In the meantime, people refuelling planes shouldn’t be making basically minimum wage in unsafe conditions. Porter should be ashamed of themselves. Great article in The Star about the strike today by Thomas Walkom.

]]> By: Chad Dembski https://praxistheatre.com/2013/03/crossing-the-line/comment-page-1/#comment-16012 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:39:29 +0000 https://praxistheatre.com/?p=12120#comment-16012 Flying between Montreal and Toronto is stupid.
I should know I’ve done it a few times and have regretted it each time. Using the excuses that it was cheaper (once had a 50% off coupon from Air Canada) and faster (only to have my flight once delayed and the other time cancelled to moved to Pearson airport instead of the Island airport). The big factor not mentioned here and where my regret also sits is in the massive negative environmental impact. Take any eco footprint survey and your flight miles will increase your damage the most of almost anything.
It’s sad to me the amount of times I hear that people say that they “have to fly” when that is very often not the case at all. Having met people at the airport who are flying between Toronto and Montreal just to go to one meeting or teach a one or two day workshop or have an audition.
I love flying, have always enjoyed the prestige that comes with it but question more and more my “need” to do it. It should be an extreme privilage and not just something we do because another theatre or film company will pay for it.
Glad you mention Via train at the bottom and that you are now considering taking the train back, we always have a choice and that choice is important each and every time.

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