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Talk to you soon. I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown.

I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown. The Slowdown. I learned about the concept of slow travel.

After reading about the concept of slow travel. After reading about the Italian climate researcher

Gianluca Grimalda, even though his boss ordered him back to work in northern Germany by a certain date.

He refused to take a transcontinental flight and time enough to return to his office.

And for this, he was fired.

Grimaldo rejects the cult of speed.

He only boards an airplane if no other options exist.

Earlier this year, he journeyed 14,000 miles on a research trip to Poppy New Guinea.

The trip took 35 days through multiple countries via trains, buses, fairies, taxis, and a shared car.

By his estimate, he saved almost four tons of carbon emissions.

This summer, we witnessed dire evidence of global warming.

Fires that scorched Canada and Hawaii, devastating floods in Libya, record-setting high temperatures

across the globe.

In light of this, I deeply admire Grimalda's commitment to the planet, a commitment that

envisions a world without airplanes.

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