Tourism / Airplanes / Travel / Cruise ships
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“The ... tourism industry has dragged its feet [on] the climate crisis.”
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“Global tourism contributes ... 8% [of the world's ghg] emissions."
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​ "Aviation has a gigantic emissions problem."
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Private jets are the worst.​ "'We’re tourism, we rely on flying’.”
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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."
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"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.”
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However painful, maybe it's better to tell hotel and restaurant employees the truth:
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pollution is not their friend. ​
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Restaurant and resort worker's income depends on good weather.
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“Covid-19 dramatically curtailed ... tourism for a time.
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The consequences in poor countries were devastating. Hunger rose, and child mortality followed.”
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Yet workers also suffer from tourism’s pollution. One such worker is Oscar Antonio.
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He “highlighted the harsh health effects [pneumonia, heart disease ... cancer] from airline emissions
- which also affect” airport fence-line neighborhoods.
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Global warming “pushes more people into poverty”, yet “tourist revenue [benefits] the ... better off.”
The biggest eco/tourism problem is air travel, but the aviation industry has done little about it.
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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
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“a profusion of … ’sustainability’ advertising campaigns,” “willfully misleading consumers.”
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​ “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.”
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Said another way, “Planes ... disturb the atmosphere, deposit pollutants,
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and form heat-trapping cirrus clouds at high altitudes.” ​​​
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What have airports, airlines, and airplane makers done to help?
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Their "plan to make flying green [is] 'too broken to fix'.”
“Flying is the ... cheapest way to [pollute] the planet.”
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“Refraining from flying … is an obvious way to help.”
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“I decided not to fly ... and I
have not regretted that decision.” ​​
