Climate Change & Ecotourism

This is where I wish to express my personal views on how ecotourism is causing climate change and other bad effects on the environment. I have already outlined in other pages of this site, some eco-unfriendly activities including the impact of air flights, driving cars with too big an engine, space flight and the use of too much fertiliser.

I have also pointed out the main offending countries and what they are not doing about it. These are direct actions that are happening now and are responsible for polluting the environment, adding carbon gases and accelerating global warming.

Everyone is talking about Climate Change - is it really happening and is it really something to worry about ?

Well, if you are a Polar Bear and your food drifts away on a lump of melting ice, then yep you should worry !

If you are a snow leopard and your beautifully disguised camouflaged fur sticks out like a sore thumb against a green snow free background, then boy, you have a problem !

Animals can't do anything about climate change, but humans can. There are some excellent articles about climate change and global warming.

Climate Change & Ecotourism - the human civilisation

It may well be that climate change happens regularly over huge cycles of time, but we are actually here now in this part of a climate change cycle and we as humans can have a big impact on the rate of climate change. It should be possible for the human civilisation to beneficially alter the rate of climate change - ha ha - how silly, we are already doing that by burning up all the earth's fossil fuel and adversely changing the composition of the atmosphere above us. Why is it that we as humans, in the name of progress, end up doing the exact opposite of what we should do best - well it's called human greed. We all want a better life for ourselves and our children and continually compare our progress against others. We don't know what we want until some clever marketing campaign tells us to buy it. We are still driven by a basic survival urge which overshadows compassion. Are we still animals or are we civilised !!

Climate Change & Ecotourism - let's just look after ourselves

Individual humans will only make individual decisions and look after themselves and/or their immediate surrounding "tribe". It requires civilised governments to impose controls in human society with rules and laws.

However, individual countries will similarly act independently like individual humans and look after their own country, unless a global government is introduced to impose the controls needed in this global human society of ours.

Climate Change & Ecotourism - Global Intervention

You may not like the idea - but it is my opinion that individually we cannot be trusted to do anything about climate change. Too many comfortably relatively rich individuals will simply bury their heads in the sand, plead poverty, plead insanity, plead anything other than organise themselves into doing anything to help others. My way of doing something about it is this website which I hope will change your thoughts and actions in a positive way.

Climate Change & Ecotourism - Carbon Trading

I really like this intervention technique. Carbon Trading will start in a small way in developed countries and will cause us all to sit up and take notice of what is thrown up into the atmosphere because it will affect our pockets !

Climate Change & Ecotourism - Summary

It is a conflict of interests to get on a polluting plane, jump into a polluting 4x4 vehicle or snow mobile in order to watch penguins leap of rocks in the Antarctic regions. All your human desires and needs may be fulfilled at that moment, but the Penguins are the ones who will suffer in the short term through your polluting actions. Tourism and Ecotourism are not necessary and let's hope that one day we can experience our ecotour through virtual technology and not through pollution.

A powerpoint summary of how climate change may affect ecotourism