Seeing family v helping the planet: how to decide whether to fly

‘I don’t think that I and other families should be subject to virtue signalling,’ writes Rachel Edwards. Photograph: Terry Harris/Alamy

With reference to letters from Sue Pryce-Jones and Donald MacKay (Letters, 2 August), my son lives in Australia, and he is coming to visit this Christmas. At times I wondered if we would ever see each other again.

I don’t think that I and other families should be subject to virtue signalling, especially when we know that an astonishingly high number of flights are taken by the very richest. The damage that the rest of us do is minimal by comparison.