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!
I completely agree
And I’m hypocritical, because I have traveled extensively
Most people, and that includes myself, won’t even enjoy what is available in their own region
How does it make sense to go on a trip to Banff to go skiing, when there’s a slightly smaller mountain 45 minutes away that you just won’t bother going to? There’s 7000 museums in every city; There is natural beauty all around… go!
Go these places first, and once you’ve exhausted what is available next door, then expand horizons