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Originally Posted by HarryT
How essential is flying to most people? We may have become used to getting anywhere in the world in a day, but I'd guess that there are very few people who actually NEED to do so. Eg, you can get pretty much anywhere in Western Europe on the train in a day (24h); I'd guess that the same would be true in the US, too, with modern high-speed trains.
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In the greater scheme of things (as in, in the long term, we're all dead), we don't, but the whole economy is built, in part, on things and people flying from one place to another. I expect this will have to change slowly though, as fuel prices can be expected to go higher and the economic balance of the system will change.