Article content Try refreshing your browser, or Daphne Bramham: A few summer thoughts, from rockets to beach volleyball Back to video In the Before Times, a friend asked whether I planned to stop flying internationally in order to reduce my carbon footprint due to climate-change concerns. My answer then and now is an emphatic, NO, for a whole bunch of reasons, including that my 20-year-old car has fewer than 60,000 kilometres on it. Even as fires rage across B.C., much of Western Canada and the United States, I am definitely not a climate-change denier. But here are two reasons why I’m not giving up my few flights each year: Blue Origins’ owner Jeff Bezos, and Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson.