r/Anticonsumption • u/Zxasuk31 • Jan 01 '24

Is tourism becoming toxic? Environment

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u/buttplugsrme Jan 01 '24

'When done right' is always such an important factor when discussing whether human behaviour is good, bad or neutral for the climate.

We could be doing everything right, theoretically, but we're just not.

Tourism helps people, but that's not why John Smith flies to the Caribbean. It's just the only justification available to him, when he's called out on it.

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u/16semesters Jan 01 '24

We could be doing everything right, theoretically, but we're just not.

There's no way to travel to Hawaii and have a low carbon footprint. That's the reality of traveling to somewhere so isolated for a short time period.

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u/rawrlion2100 Jan 01 '24 edited Jan 01 '24

Would that not be true of most global / international travel outside of certain European countries being connected by train?

Even in Japan, the most popular way to get from Tokyo to Okinawa is by air.

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u/16semesters Jan 01 '24

That's true. If you're traveling a very long distance, you're burning a lot of carbon.