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And we still have trains and boats
Does the company you're employed at always happily give you how many extra days you need to take a boat or to ride a train instead of taking a plane? Lucky you, I can promise you that's not the case everywhere.
Like sure, you could insist on taking the cleanest transportation method available but that's definitely putting yourself on the chopping block and while starving to death due to not having income definitely is very climate friendly overall (less humans = less negative impact on climate after all) I really hope you can see yourself why this isn't actually a proper solution. Unless you want to see humanity go extinct but in that case might as well also continue the way we have so far.
Company decisions are made by employees. Definitely you should demand the option for sustainable travel.
But, yeah, it's an easy argument. Trains have WiFi, so you can work while you're moving without harming productivity
Corporations are notoriously democratic.
I can work just as well on a plane. I don't need WiFi, a company laptop (which I do have) is all I need. Any and all files can be saved beforehand for offline access and then I just upload them once I do have WiFi or LAN available.
Yeah, and worsen the climate catastrophe
Seriously if the company I work for insists on me taking a plane to somewhere that's 100% on them and not on me. Don't try to make people responsible for decisions they have exactly zero say in. That just makes the average person completely shy away from even trying to make it better in situations where they have the ability to because why bother when you're getting blamed anyways?
I had exactly one single plane trip in my entire life (going by life expectancy for my not-US country I'm about halfway through) that I wanted to do and that's easily compensated by me not having kids while living in a western country. I don't buy bottled water either and instead use exclusively water from my tap because it's safe to drink and doesn't need plastic bottles. I wear my clothes until they're impossible to repair and once they reach that point I cut them up and use them to clean if the fabric allows it. I negotiated for more wfh days than the higher ups like to see in exchange for a slightly lower raise to cut down commute. I'm still trying to get my landlord to install an electric charger for cars so I can swap my car to an electric one, I even offered to pay that charger myself because no car is sadly no option. Especially not when with the current temperatures the biggest train company actually starts to DISCOURAGE people from using trains because the risk of getting a heat stroke is too high thanks to the air conditioning not being able to handle the current heat wave. Heck I could keep going with the things I do but this wall of text is already long enough. And unlike you I don't shit on people who do not have a choice with things, because that's just not a cool move and actually hinders any and all improvement.