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I like the idea! Tourism is a great way to fund preservation.
by hu3 7y ago
I like the idea! Tourism is a great way to fund preservation.
- dictum 7y agoThis can work for smaller areas. Tourists get to see the result of preservation because can experience almost the full extent of the territory. However, for a larger area of which most parts are boring, unsafe and hard to reach, it's hard to cover preservation with such funds. Bolsonaro is unhappy with one such arrangement, covering a much smaller area: visitors pay a $50 fee, collected by the federal government, to enter the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha for a 10 day stay. He wants to the abolish the fee. Given his general outlook on taxes, I don't see how tourism could fund preservation, except for increasing its scale to a predatory level. https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2019/07/taxa-de-fernando-de-noronha-e-roubo-diz-bolsonaro.shtml https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2019/07/taxa-de-fern... (in Portuguese)
- chiefalchemist 7y agoBut doesn't air travel generate a lot of carbon? I heard a quote a couple days ago that was along the libes of: A flight from NY to LA generates as much emissions as a person does all year. But it wasn't clear to me if that the entire jet or one travel's slice of the jet; vs what they expend otherwise.