Why we must give up flying

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(Filed: 29/07/2006)Page 1 of 4
The Bishop of London argued this week that we have a moral obligation to be environmentally friendly and that jetting away for a holiday is a sin. The geographer and journalist Nicholas Crane, who chose nearly 10 years ago never to fly again, explains his decision.


A man of courage has spoken. The Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Richard Chartres, has categorised flying as "a symptom of sin". The pressure on non-essential flying has been building for months. It just needed a public figure to take a stand against it.
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