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In 2019, Alex Mungall pledged to never fly again.
“I was a fairly frequent flyer and I saw what was being done and not being done about the climate change that I was seeing all around. And I actually was on a trip from Melbourne to Perth to see the wildflowers, which is so beautiful. And I realised that a lot of that was going to be destroyed as Western Australia dried out and it just broke my heart.”
As someone who is actively trying to live sustainably, Mr Mungall says giving up flying seemed the next logical step.
“I’d done the solar panels; I’d done the battery. Recently, we’ve got the electric car. But none of that is an equivalent response to the destruction that…
