Lies to unlearn about travel

Is flying evil? What's wrong with a gap year? Should we buy souvenirs?! Let's get in to it. Things mentioned: You Are A Global Citizen: A Guided Journal for the Culturally Curious by ‪@damondominique‬ The Responsible Traveller: A Practical Guide to Reducing Your Environmental and Social Impact, Embracing Sustainable Tourism and Travelling the World With a Conscience by Karen Edwards “…we will have to carry out 18,000 extra unnecessary flights just to secure our take-off and landings right.”Chief executive https://simpleflying.com/what-exactly... 10% of people in England took more than half of all international flights in 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/world/202... /// TIMESTAMPS /// 0:00 Intro 1:35 Travel is good for you 6:44 Travel is bad for you 10:30 Flying is morally wrong 13:52 'Travelling' and 'Holiday' are interchangeable words 17:34 You need to travel to be an expansive person 20:58 If you haven't bought souvenirs you won't remember you went 22:17 Final thoughts /// SUPPORT /// JOIN THE GUMPTION CLUB:   / thegumptionclub   Being in the club means you get: a free weekly podcast, access to a secret facebook group, a free poetry collection and play written by me, access to livestreams AND you get to access to all my videos before anyone else sees them! CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP - for those lovely people who don't want to use Patreon and aren't bothered about the patreon perks, but who'd like to buy me a drink as a thank you for the free videos...    / @leenanorms   ORDER my poetry collection, BARGAIN BIN ROM-COM! https://linktr.ee/bargainbinromcom // COME AND HANG WITH ME IN BETWEEN UPLOADS // IF NEWSLETTERS ARE YOUR THING, sign up to get a little letter in your inbox from me once in a while! As a thank you for signing up, you’ll get a FREE downloadable list of my best books of all time: https://leenanorms.substack.com/subsc... INSTAGRAM:   / leenanorms   TWITTER:   / leenanorms   I use Octopus Energy which are a clean green sustainable energy company - if you're in the UK and are curious, here are the two videos I talk about them in:    • My London flat failed the eco test. (with ...   and    • 1 year to go zero-waste: how did I do?   And here's my referral link if you'd like to get £50 off (I get £50 off too, woo!) https://share.octopus.energy/fun-hawk... All music used is licensed through Epidemic Sound - I've been using them for years and hand-on-heart it's really fab. You get unlimited use of their music per month for a pretty bargain fee. Here's my referral link (if you sign up through it I get a free month): https://www.epidemicsound.com/referra... If you're a company that makes plastic-free products, pays their tax and doesn't exploit people, I'd love to hear from you if you'd like to sponsor the channel: [email protected]