Decarbonising academia: confronting our climate hypocrisy
Decarbonising academia: confronting our climate hypocrisy
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学术界脱碳：面对我们的气候虚伪
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2020
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摘要学术界普遍是碳密集型的。许多学者高度重视空气流动性，现在这种程度被框定为一种“气候伪善”。技术进步不足以减少飞行的负面影响，需要改变行为。作为旅游学者，我们对该行业的了解意味着，我们有比平均水平更大的责任来展示领导力，但目前仍将对不成比例的碳排放负责。在个人和社会层面上，我们在道德上脱离了我们的影响的重要性，并以有价值的事业为自己开脱，我们免除了自己的个人责任，我们无视目的地的影响，我们诋毁了那些侵犯我们“飞行权利”的人。现在是时候让学术机构承担责任了，学者们也应该通过审计我们自己的影响，在我们目前的制度约束下减少影响，设想和试验低碳商业模式，让我们为自己是可持续解决方案的一部分而自豪，而不仅仅是报告其他人的行为是多么不可持续，从而在该领域展示领导力。
Abstract Academia is generally carbon intensive. Many academics are highly aeromobile to an extent that is now being framed as a form of ‘climate hypocrisy’. Technological advances are not enough to reduce the negative impacts of flying, and behaviour change is needed. As tourism academics our knowledge of the industry means that we have a greater than average responsibility to show leadership, and yet currently will remain responsible for a disproportionate amount of carbon emissions. At individual and societal levels, we morally disengage from the significance of our impacts and exonerate ourselves with worthy causes, we absolve ourselves from personal responsibility, we disregard the impacts at the destination, and we discredit those impinging on our “rights” to fly. It is time for academic institutions to take responsibility and for academics to show leadership in the sector by auditing our own impacts, reducing them within our current institutional constraints, and envisaging and experimenting with low carbon business models that make us proud of being part of a sustainable solution, and not just reporting how unsustainable everyone else’s behaviour is.