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Tourism Should Die–and Why It Won’t
- avmich 7y agoThe article doesn't explain well what specifically is so un-ecological about tourism - it does say the transportation pollution in general is significant, but that's about it. Switching aviation - the main transportation mode used for traveling - from fossil fuels to renewable sources is a hot topic today. I don't think hydrogen fuel cell solutions are sufficiently researched for that problem; e.g. I haven't seen an analysis of Toyota Mirai-like power train as applied to high speed subsonic propeller driven transportation. So while may be the article gives a valid point, it doesn't feel as a well articulated source of the problem and the attempted solutions.
- clawedjird 7y agoThe problem is that, almost 10 years ago, tourism was responsible for 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, tourism has been increasing by around 4% annually - a growth trend that’s projected to continue into the future. The only real solution is for everyone to reduce their amount of pleasure travel. The article didn’t offer any guidance as to how to force that change on the global population from the top down, but I’m not sure that sort of “solution” would be very amenable to HN anyway.