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Self-care isn’t selfish — it’s the foundation for sustainable giving.

#SelfCareFirst #MentalWellbeing #LifeBalance #NewsPerspective #DailyInsight #MindsetShift #HealthyBoundaries #EmotionalHealth #TruthReport #AwarenessIsPower #DeepThoughts #ThoughtOfTheDay #WordsThatMatter #StayGrounded #PersonalGrowth #WellnessMindset #InnerPeace #GiveFromOverflow #ModernLife #NewsPage

Now on my way from Bruxelles to #Amsterdam to catch my EuropeanSleeper night train there, as one does.

This #ECD9547 is very comfortable. It takes just 2 hours, 30 €.

Ventilation seems good, with 1100 ppm CO2 even after the wagon almost filled up in Antwerp.

#StayGrounded #FlyLess

CO2 meter showing a reading of 570 ppm at the beginning of the travel

CO2 meter showing a reading of 1100 ppm after Antwerp

Got on the (in)famous bus Vaasa-Warsaw in Tallinn. It seems today I'm the only one going all the way to Warsaw from Finland. Two smiling drivers, that's new.

#StayGrounded #FlyLess #N1205

Green flixbus bus (Mercedes model), line N1205, at the ferry terminal in Tallinn, with a driver walking in front

1/ „Das Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort, das heute Gäste aus aller Welt auf die Insel lockt, trägt maßgeblich zur Finanzierung der Schutzmaßnahmen bei. Rund 40 Minuten dauert der Flug vom Festland.“

Na, gut, wenn der Flug vom Festland nur 40 Minuten dauert, wollen wir mal nicht so sein. Hauptsache die „Gäste aus aller Welt“ kommen mit der #Bahn nach #Australien.

#stayGrounded #AmBodenBleiben #Tourismus #NachhaltigerTourismus .

https://www.taz.de/!6146603

Sometimes the gap isn’t age — it’s values.

#GenerationalGap #MindsetDifference #SocialObservation #NewsPerspective #DailyInsight #RealityCheck #OldSoul #DifferentMindset #TruthReport #LifePerspective #DeepThoughts #WordsThatMatter #StayGrounded #ThoughtOfTheDay #AwarenessIsPower #CulturalShift #ModernLife #IdentityTalk #RealTalkDaily #NewsPage

In a world obsessed with status, character remains the true measure of worth.

#CharacterOverStatus #ValuesMatter #KindnessCounts #NewsPerspective #DailyInsight #LifeLessons #TruthReport #RespectAndEmpathy #MindsetShift #AwarenessIsPower #HumanDecency #ThoughtOfTheDay #WordsThatMatter #StayGrounded #InnerValues #DeepThoughts #RealWealth #WakeUpCall #GoodHuman #NewsPage

@morsuapri @SheDrivesMobility #FliegenTötet #StayGrounded

Den Trick hat man sich schon im Spätmittelalter ausgedacht:

„Die Frage ist, ob wir als Gesellschaft thematisieren, dass die Vermögenden mehr Umwelt zerstören als die anderen. Das machen wir halt nicht“, so der Politikwissenschaftler. Die Debatte um die Erbschaftssteuer zeige, es gebe „politische Beißhemmungen“, Reiche zur Verantwortung zu ziehen. „Dahinter steckt ein Narrativ, dass diejenigen, die viel haben, für alle anderen sehr nützlich sind“, sagt Lepenies. „Den Trick hat man sich schon im Spätmittelalter ausgedacht: Die haben zwar ganz viel Geld, aber andere Menschen kommen dadurch in Lohn und Brot.“

#TaxTheRich

„Für den Familienbesuch in ein anderes Land zu fliegen habe etwa eine andere Qualität als der Urlaubsflug im Jahr. Eine Faustregel, mit der das reichste Prozent kommendes Jahr vielleicht genügsamer mit dem Rest des Kuchens umgeht.“

Tja. Vielleicht sollte man noch mal darüber nachdenken, was es bedeutet, #Internationalisierung zu fördern. Durch das #Erasmus-Programm entstehen eben auch die #ErasmusBabys. Und dann fliegt man hin und her. Und die Omas auch.

https://www.taz.de/!6144158

#stayGrounded #amBodenBleiben

Lack of understanding often disguises itself as criticism.

#SocialObservation #RealityCheck #HumanBehavior #NewsPerspective #TruthReport #MindsetShift #DailyInsight #RealTalkDaily #AwarenessIsPower #LifeLessons #DeepThoughts #WordsThatMatter #StayGrounded #ThoughtOfTheDay #SilenceIsPower #WisdomDaily #WakeUpCall #NoiseVsKnowledge #MentalClarity #NewsPage

Boundaries are often mistaken for disrespect.

#RespectIsMutual #BoundariesMatter #SocialReality #NewsPerspective #RealityCheck #TruthReport #MindsetShift #RealTalkDaily #LifeLessons #AwarenessIsPower #DeepThoughts #WordsThatMatter #StayGrounded #HealthyBoundaries #ThoughtOfTheDay #WakeUpCall #ModernValues #HumanBehavior #SpeakWithRespect #NewsPage

Popularity doesn’t equal ability. Applause doesn’t equal excellence.

#RealityCheck #CompetenceVsConfidence #SocialObservation #NewsPerspective #TruthReport #EgoCulture #CriticalThinking #MindsetShift #DailyInsight #HardTruths #RealTalkDaily #WordsThatMatter #DeepThoughts #AwarenessIsPower #StayGrounded #PublicPerception #WisdomDaily #ThoughtOfTheDay #NoiseVsValue #NewsPage

Good upbringing shows in behavior, not restrictions.

#ValuesMatter #RespectOverRules #CharacterCounts #NewsPerspective #DailyInsight #LifeLessons #RealTalkDaily #TruthReport #MindsetShift #AwarenessIsPower #GoodManners #SocialValues #ThoughtOfTheDay #WordsThatMatter #HumanDecency #StayGrounded #EthicsInLife #DeepThoughts #WakeUpCall #NewsPage

Those who know their worth don’t feel the need to justify it.

#PowerOfSilence #SelfRespect #QuietConfidence #NewsPerspective #DailyInsight #MindsetShift #RealTalkDaily #LifeLessons #TruthReport #AwarenessIsPower #DeepThoughts #WordsThatMatter #StayGrounded #ThoughtOfTheDay #InnerStrength #WakeUpCall #MentalDiscipline #CalmMind #WisdomDaily #NewsPage

Do business and first class airline seats really pollute much more than their economy equivalent? 🤔

Yes. Here's why.

Under the current system, air travel - particulary luxury seats - are subsidised while green travel is heavily taxed. It makes zero sense, and has to change.

We need levies on luxury tickets and to Tax the Super Rich to fund affordable, climate-friendly travel.

#BetterPlanetOnline #TaxTheRich #TaxTheSuperRich #StayGrounded #MoreTrainsLessPlanes #DoeDeurneDicht #StopPrivateJets #Greenpeace

Krieg ist Frieden. Freiheit ist Sklaverei. Unwissenheit ist Stärke.

Flughäfen sind Klimaschutz.

#StayGrounded @StayGrounded_net #AmBodenBleiben

https://www.fr.de/politik/flughaefen-als-klimaschutz-ngos-werfen-der-eu-greenwashing-vor-94088687.html

Krieg ist Frieden. Freiheit ist Sklaverei. Unwissenheit ist Stärke. Flughäfen sind Klimaschutz. #StayGrounded @staygroundednet.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy #AmBodenBleiben

Flughäfen als Klimaschutz: NGO...

https://ethosandempathy.org/en/2025/12/19/on-flight-free-traveling/

New essay on flight free traveling.

#FlightFree #staygrounded

A new study about creation of further flight cirrus within already existing cirrus clouds increases the climate impact of aviation by previously unknown 10%
Seelig et al 2025: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66231-8

A good German summary and explainer of why, when, and where flight cirrus are harming us https://www.scinexx.de/news/geowissen/klima-wie-versteckte-kondensstreifen-zur-erwaermung-beitragen/

So each ton of flight-CO2 is really worth 3.3t. Based on Lee et al 2021 – cited by the Seelig paper as well – who found that burning kerosene in high altitude has 3 times the warming impact over burning fossil fuels on the ground.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66231-8

I know only 1 CO2 calculator that correctly observes the tripling impact:
https://uba.co2-rechner.de/de_DE/calculator/flight/

Another thought: the aviation industry expects a 5% increase every year. And by the way, according to Atmosfair, most flights are not biz flights but private choices.
So with +5% each year, how will the cirrus impact evolve?
The number of passengers would double every 16 years. While it doesn't necessarily mean that the number of contrails doubles in 16 years as well, as it depends on number of machines in the air for doubled passenger numbers. But to put it mildly, doubling passenger count is not going to decrease contrails either.

I think, contrails have direct and disruptive impact on societies. Because they heat up night-time 2m temperatures locally by maybe 2°C compared to no cirrus. A heatwave gets that much more stressful. And the weather gets that much more angry energy to produce extreme events.
Dunno how much this occurs over oceans and what the impact there is. The ocean surface and low depths have such a long memory for temperature. What happens over the ocean stays in the ocean, so to speak.

The official EU petition for rationing flight-CO2 died today. See https://fedifreu.de/@anlomedad/115734699056447173

#StayGrounded #Flightcirrus #contrails #ClimateChange

Screenshot from the flight tracker flightradar24.com shows a global map with yellow plane symbols where a plane was in the air today at 4am UTC.
Visible flight routes over the oceans are
the Mediterranean – fully covered
Northern North Atlantic – nearly fully covered from latitude 25 to Greenland
West Pacific along Japan North and East, along the warm Kurishio Current.
Europe is covered, Asia and India, Australia. USA and Canada a little less so due to 4am UTC.

@anlomedad@climatejustice.social

The official EU petition to ration aviation CO2 died today. It got 7,278 signatures out of 1 mio.
France: 5,116 which is 9% of the required.
Germany: 478, which is 0.7% of the required.

On the same day as the aviation CO2-petition, one about computer games launched as well. It reached the quorum of 1mio signatures across the 27 member states in a very short time.

If it weren't yet clear to me that our our neoliberal society is going to self-destruct due to dynamics among us normal people– now confirmed anew – I would start shamelessly posting EU-Petitions I am interested in in reply to such toots with highly frequented petitions.

I documented a few dates with numbers:
2024-12-21
1114 (France gained 200 in the past 2 days. Now 868.)

2024-12-31
1321 (France now 1022)

2025-05-13
total 4336
(France now 3454,
Germany now 173 )

2025-06-30
total 5091
(France now 3712,
Germany now 256)

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2023/000006_de

#StayGrounded #EUpetition