Facing our Inner Conflicts; Confessions of an Environmentalist Airline Pilot

Dan Tipney
5 min readMar 20, 2023

‘I deeply care about maintaining a liveable future on our planet, but who am I to speak out when I burn fossil fuels for a living?’… ‘I am worried whether or not my children’s generation will have food, water, breathable air and a safe environment but how can I take action when I work for a company that is intricately linked to climate and ecological breakdown?’… ‘I feel profoundly sad at the loss of species and ecosystems but engaging in any kind of environmental action would be so hypocritical given the life that I live.’

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