Tourism / Airplanes / Travel / Cruise ships
“The ... tourism industry has dragged its feet [on] the climate crisis.”
“Global tourism contributes ... 8% [of the world's ghg] emissions."
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"Aviation has a gigantic emissions problem."
Private jets are the worst. "'We’re tourism, we rely on flying’.”
One “gallon of ... jet fuel creates over 20 pounds of carbon dioxide.”
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Cruise ships are no better than airplanes. Besides their “exhaust fumes,
[they've] been caught discarding trash, fuel, and sewage directly into the ocean."
"Cruise ships ... use toxic heavy fuel oil ... described as [the] 'dirtiest of all fuels'."
A boycott of tourism would bring layoffs: “In 2018, [tourism] generated 10% of global GDP.”
However painful, maybe it's better to tell hotel and restaurant employees the truth:
pollution is not their friend.
Restaurant and resort worker's income depends on good weather.
“Covid-19 dramatically curtailed ... tourism for a time.
The consequences in poor countries were devastating. Hunger rose, and child mortality followed.”
Yet workers also suffer from tourism’s pollution. One such worker is Oscar Antonio.
He “highlighted the harsh health effects [pneumonia, heart disease ... cancer] from airline emissions
- which also affect” airport fence-line neighborhoods.
Global warming “pushes more people into poverty”, while “tourist revenue [benefits] the ... better off.”
The biggest eco/tourism problem is air travel, but the aviation industry has done little about it.
Airline’s pollution-reduction efforts are negated by their "annual increase in emissions.”
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In addition to pollutants, airline companies spew out
“a profusion of … ’sustainability’ advertising campaigns,” “willfully misleading consumers.”
“Green initiatives marketed by airlines [have been labeled] as ‘uncertain’ or 'unrealistic'."
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Meanwhile, “frequent flyer programmes” make the problem worse.
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Like with cruise ships, airplane pollution is more than CO2, “planes emit mono-nitrogen oxides
into the upper troposphere … and seed cirrus clouds with aerosols from fuel combustion.”
Said another way, “Planes ... disturb the atmosphere, deposit pollutants,
and form heat-trapping cirrus clouds at high altitudes.”
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What have airports, airlines, and airplane makers done to help?
Their "plan to make flying green [is] 'too broken to fix'.”
“Flying is the ... cheapest way to [pollute] the planet.”
“Refraining from flying … is an obvious way to help.”
“I decided not to fly ... and I
have not regretted that decision.”
