There's No Such Thing As Eco-Tourism

You pack up your baggage, take off on the plane, get abroad and begin the trip in mysterious unknown countries and come back bearing photos of sharks and storms and sunflowers bigger than your head. "Man, it was great." maybe you say.

But here, Anneli Rufus, who’s an author for several books, tells us stop these kind of "eco-tourism" or "adventure travel". These planes transporting 207 million of us to giant-flowerland are causing global warming, Anneli says. Carbon emissions from aircraft into the higher atmosphere are thrice as potent as those rising from ground level. "We would need to ration the carbon dioxide produced by traveling to an allowance of no more than half a ton a year for every human being alive today." That translates to 1,000 kilometers by car a year with a round-trip international flight once every 15 years.

And as a result of the tourism boom and globalization there's "nowhere left to go," Anneli says, because "tourism has made the planet into a uniform spectacle".

(Resource: http://www.alternet.org/story/40174/)

Jin Yanni