10 of the last 10 years were the hottest on record. It’s time. I know so many people that will give lip service to the environment and then think nothing of taking multiple flights per year on the flimsiest of pretexts.
And as all too often happens, people go to poorer countries where they get waited on hand and foot, and then act like they’re doing some giant favor to the locals. All too often these tourist sights end up being an unmitigated natural disaster, not to mention locking the locals out of their own back yard.
And then they’ll turn around and claim they’re “helping the local economy” trying to justify it. It’s colonialism by another name. If they paid fair wages to the workers these vacations would become much more expensive, perhaps prohibitively so.
And wtf is wrong with you, you can’t relax in your own region? Gonna cook the planet because you can’t be happy and relax in your own hemisphere. Y’all need to chill it with the air travel!
You’ve posted in the right place.
“Hey, we don’t have an industry in our town, so how can we get people to stay and provide jobs? Hmm. If only we could attract other people to spend money here in some way…”
Or
“The locals treat locals like shit, let’s blame tourists!”
Or
“We don’t want your kind around here! Go back to your own country!”
Or
“Can’t do shit about the actual polluters, let’s bully some random people instead!”
… You got your shit backwards. Tourists exist because they’re needed or wanted. And the arguments you use are in the same vein as the current US administration. Kick out all the unpleasant elements and make x country great. No clue what happens to the people actually living there until the country becomes great though.