By: Sys Rq
On my list of sins against human decency, cynicism ranks a lot higher (i.e., worse) than hypocrisy. Congrats on achieving both at once!
View ArticleBy: wilful
Faze, all of your upper middle class peers are twats. Suggest you meet some new people. Nobody I know talks or thinks like that about the trips they take.
View ArticleBy: reductiondesign
I now suspect that it's the shallowest people who travel the most. The other day I caught myself thinking that I'd like to see more of the world and its people to broaden my horizons, but just before I...
View ArticleBy: flug
The Future Isn't What It Used To Be: Changing Trends And Their Implications For Transport Planning (PDF)
View ArticleBy: kurosawa's pal
Thanks melissam, that gives me a whole lot more respect for Herzog than I previously had. You can't help but have new eyes after a long distance journey on foot. Of course, you can't help but have your...
View ArticleBy: a womble is an active kind of sloth
Faze: I think you have made your point about disliking frivolous travel. Back to the topic at hand - I wonder if the lack of a new mode of transportation in industrialized countires has prevented more...
View ArticleBy: Ahab
FYI maybe we should all travel like Werner Herzog, whose super-human> exploits have oft been chronicled upon these pages, who walked from Munich to Paris. Of course, ancient religious pilgrims often...
View ArticleBy: the_royal_we
I travel. I have to. I live outside of my home country, and if I want to see my family, I have to get on a plane. @Ghidorah: you beat me to it. Thank you. Favorited accordingly. Haters gonna hate, or...
View ArticleBy: KokuRyu
I always wondered if one day future historians would look back at the demise of the Concorde and see that it represented the end of an era of technological growth. The end of the Concorde just signals...
View ArticleBy: bl1nk
Dear faze, I recall reading your MeTa comments from November and agree with your desire for diversified of opinion. I'd hope that if you continue to engage in this thread that you do so after reading...
View ArticleBy: ChurchHatesTucker
It seems likely that our need to travel has shrunk substantially. Well, peaks can come from the demand as well as the supply side.
View ArticleBy: Ghidorah
All kidding aside, the best french toast, and the best hashbrowns I ever had were at a little cafe in Dali, a little walled city in Yunnan Province in China. I went there pretty much every day for...
View ArticleBy: coolguymichael
Nearing capacity? Not even close. When I need to travel out of my city, I try to do it in the middle of the night or VERY early in the morning. Hardly anyone else is around most of the time. Roads are...
View ArticleBy: humanfont
Faze you don't understand. This is the Sheraton hotel in Haikou China. They have a waffle bar and tropical foliage, it's the Hawaii of China and a waffle bar. This is the Sheraton in Omaha, NE. It's...
View ArticleBy: harriet vane
I think we might be approaching structural limits in cities and suburbs, but it's hardly a global phenomenon. I'm sure there's still billions of people who'd love to increase their range beyond the...
View ArticleBy: harriet vane
Faze, do you have anything to say about the articles in the FPP? Because your whinging about the attitudes of travellers isn't exactly relevant to the topic of whether there are structural limits to...
View ArticleBy: acheekymonkey
Saw this yesterday at Mother Jones: "Climate change is a problem that is perfectly designed to make people do nothing: It happens far in the future; its effects will be felt most greatly by other...
View ArticleBy: Faze
Travelers, it appears, don't like being called out for being shallow. They love the pompous whooshing about, the renting of cars, and huffing around with suitcases and serious faces. "Look at us, we're...
View ArticleBy: jimmythefish
If a country is governed wisely, its inhabitants will be content. They enjoy the labor of their hands and don't waste time inventing labor-saving machines. Since they dearly love their homes, they...
View ArticleBy: Ghidorah
I travel. I have to. I live outside of my home country, and if I want to see my family, I have to get on a plane. There aren't really a lot of other feasible options (trans-pacific container ship...
View ArticleBy: dg
I suspect that one of the reasons that people who are delayed on or off the tarmac during these blizzards, grow so furious, is because in their hearts, they know they are traveling for a frivolous...
View ArticleBy: Nothing
I travel by air a lot, though never for work, and I spend a lot of time thinking about the impact that has. I do pretty well in terms of living sustainably, aside from all those flights. But that one...
View ArticleBy: smoke
It sure doesn't look like peak travel to people in India, China, etc. either. I thought this paper was making a pretty specious mountain of a molehill.
View ArticleBy: Splunge
I suspect that one of the reasons that people who are delayed on or off the tarmac during these blizzards, grow so furious, is because in their hearts, they know they are traveling for a frivolous...
View ArticleBy: humanfont
The Sheraton in Haikou in Hainan, China has a superior waffle-bar to the one in Omaha, NE USA. There Faze happy. See it's not all inconsequential useless banter and comaining about the service.
View ArticleBy: y2karl
In the annals of human hypocrisy... He said, Hey! You! Get off of his lawn Hey! You! Get off of his lawn Hey! You! Get off of his lawn Don't hang around 'cause two's a yawn On his lawn....
View ArticleBy: melissam
FYI maybe we should all travel like Werner Herzog, whosesuper-human> exploits have oft been chronicled upon these pages, who walked from Munich to Paris. Of course, ancient religious pilgrims often...
View ArticleBy: rocco
I always wondered if one day future historians would look back at the demise of the Concorde and see that it represented the end of an era of technological growth.
View ArticleBy: melissam
If a country is governed wisely, its inhabitants will be content. They enjoy the labor of their hands and don't waste time inventing labor-saving machines. Since they dearly love their homes, they...
View ArticleBy: Coobeastie
Womble - I'm sure I've read the same about commutes, that while we have moved further away from our places of work our commute time has remained stable since the industrial revolution. There's that...
View ArticleBy: zippy
Have we hit peak have we hit peak Have we hit peak Have we hit peak Have we hit peak Have we hit peak Have we hit peak ??
View ArticleBy: Salvor Hardin
I haven't RTFA, so that's not supposed to be an insight into anything. I just thought the title was funny. I'll let myself out.
View ArticleBy: Salvor Hardin
Oh god! He's right! I just tried to get up and walk across the room, and I can't move! We've exhausted our reserves of travel! Oh wait, it's just my leg fell asleep. False alarm, people.
View ArticleBy: a womble is an active kind of sloth
Schafer has done work examining how humans have somewhat consistent patterns of travel behavior, irrespective of the wealth level in a paper titled "Long-Term Trends in Global Passenger Mobility". It's...
View ArticleBy: bl1nk
I suspect that one of the reasons that people who are delayed on or off the tarmac during these blizzards, grow so furious, is because in their hearts, they know they are traveling for a frivolous...
View ArticleBy: !Jim
Let's all take a rowboat across the ocean! Fun galore! Peak rowboat is so 2009.
View ArticleBy: bumpkin
In the annals of human hypocrisy, there is no more egregious entry than that of the environmental activist jetting from conference to conference around the world. People who shink in horrified contempt...
View ArticleBy: ersatz
I suspect that one of the reasons that people who are delayed on or off the tarmac during these blizzards, grow so furious, is because in their hearts, they know they are traveling for a frivolous...
View ArticleBy: outlandishmarxist
In the annals of human hypocrisy, there is no more egregious entry than that of the environmental activist jetting from conference to conference around the world. People who shink in horrified contempt...
View ArticleBy: justkevin
It seems likely that our need to travel has shrunk substantially. Computing, telecommunications and the Internet have eliminated many of the tasks that historically required travel and made those that...
View ArticleBy: PercussivePaul
"Peak travel" is a bit of a dishonest way to frame it. I skimmed the paper, the actual claim is this: passenger travel intensity is no longer growing in 8 industrialized countries. "Intensity" means...
View ArticleBy: blue_beetle
(The best you are likely to get is complaints about food or service or lodging - usually about the best not being nearly as best as advertised.) I'd suggest that the problem is with the people you hang...
View ArticleBy: Coobeastie
I think I meet the same people as Faze - you can't possibly be a real person and really understand the world unless you've gone and patronised some people in a country less economically developed than...
View ArticleBy: Chocolate Pickle
"Peak X" seems to have become a meme. We're also approaching "Peak Chocolate", I've been told.
View ArticleBy: Faze
In the annals of human hypocrisy, there is no more egregious entry than that of the environmental activist jetting from conference to conference around the world. People who shink in horrified contempt...
View ArticlePeak Travel
Have we hit 'peak travel'? Recent studies have suggested we may be approaching the limits of global capacity to sustain growth in human movement at current rates, or that we may already be at the...
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