
Climate Change Is Making ‘Last Chance Tourism’ More Popular, and Riskier | More tourists are eager to visit vanishing glaciers and ice caves, but warming is also making the sites unstable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/climate/climate-change-iceland-glacier-tourism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IU4.-i5k.S9f2drbI4KRj&smid=url-share
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“Burning fossil fuels is driving climate change, so I’m going to burn as many fossil fuels as possible to see things while I still can.”
“It’s a good example of the consequence that climate change can have on glacier tourism,” Emmanuel Salim, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Toulouse in France, said of the accident.
The idiocracy, do not look up mentality is astounding. Instead of being eager to change methods to halt further repercussions that our actions have towards climate change, let’s tour instead releasing even more fossil fuels.