It is estimated that global tourism accounts for almost 8% of carbon emissions worldwide. That is a big chunk. But, instead of canceling your holiday, maybe you could try a few of these actions to help offset the damage.
Our species has never been as mobile as it is today. Getting from one side of the planet to the other has never been as easy or affordable. You can wake up this morning in Boston and through the magic of air transport, go to sleep in Barcelona, Botswana or Brisbane. The downside of this movement, while it brings people together, comes at a high cost to the environment.
As Mark Twain said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” A small step. The more lasting term solution would be educating people in the wedding party about how their carelessness impacts the environment and how badly it reflects on them. Enforcement of existing litter laws and substantial fines when permit holders don't clean up after themselves would help too. But you have to begin somewhere, and activism is contagious.Recently there has been a movement to abolish plastic straws.
She continues,"That said, traveling has a harsh impact on carbon emissions. Fossil fuel divestment aims to tackle the root of the problem: halting investments in fossil fuel companies who have spent the last half a century blocking meaningful climate action and perpetuating the crisis. If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from that wreckage."
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