How I Offset My Carbon Footprint from Flights
How I Offset My Carbon Footprint from Flights: A Complete Guide For a long time, I avoided thinking too hard about flying and carbon. Not because I didn’t care, but because the conversation felt overwhelming. Numbers without context. Guilt without direction. It was easier to look away and focus on the next destination. That changed after a conversation with a lodge owner who asked, very casually, how I travelled there. Not judgmental. Just curious. It made me realise that responsibility doesn’t have to be loud to be real. I started small. The first step was understanding, roughly, what a flight costs the planet. Not obsessively — just enough to ground the choice. Long-haul flights weigh more heavily. Short hops add up when they’re frequent. Seeing it framed that way made my habits visible in a way they hadn’t been before. Offsetting came next, but carefully. I don’t treat it as absolution. It’s not a permission slip to fly endlessly. It’s an acknowledgement that flying has co...