Ibon wrote: there are close to 200 million upper middle class Chinese with loads of disposable income wanting to go on holidays to remote places because of the hussle and bussle of urban life.
I already blocked off 2 weeks for the next high season for his groups. Chinese tourists here we come.......
I am going to be using our table saw and left over tropical wood from our constructions and make a few dozen chop sticks to get ready for the next high season.
Maybe one of these wealthy Chinese will buy us out when we are too old to go up the 4x4 road?
This is not the fast track to Doom. I see opportunity. Major opportunity. And I will milk it for all its worth.
Good luck with your Chinese tourist boom. But lets not pretend it isn't one more tiny push down the fast track to doom.
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I'll never forget back in the early days of the IPCC when I was working in Bern, Switzerland on some of the paleo-climate data associated with huge volcanic eruptions. It was apparent even then that air travel was a major contributor to CO2 flux to the atmosphere, and concomitant global warming. Some of the IPCC worked up a proposal to curtail air travel to mitigate global warming, and made a presentation while I was there in Bern. They suggested that to start every person should be limited to one air trip within their home country every 5 years, one air trip in Europe every 10 years, and one intercontinental air trip every 20 years. Needless to say I was taken aback by this, as I had just travelled from Alaska to Switzerland by air to work with the IPCC, and I was averaging about 1-3 intercontinental trips every year, mostly as part of my job for my scientific work. I was about 50 times over their proposed limit on individual air travel. almost all because of my travel for work.
I realized right then that this problem was essentially not solvable on an individual level. If people's jobs require them to travel, then they are going to have to travel. And if Chinese tourists want to fly from Beijing across the Pacific to Mt. Toutamas to see Butterflies on a mountain in Panama, then they are going to do that.
The only way to cut CO2 is not rely on individuals all simultaneously deciding not to travel anymore, but to mandate restrictions and limits from the top.
And that hasn't happened yet. AND, after seeing all the MSM media spin and PR Sham associated with the fraudulent Paris Climate Accords, I now doubt that it ever will. We aren't going to fix climate change. The Paris Accords showed that our leaders are going to put on a bit show and lie and pretend we've fixed global warming.....and then just go on as before with BAU.
IMHO we are indeed on the fast track to doom. We might as get out the popcorn and enjoy the show.
Wow! That was pretty good doom! Oooooh...look at that doom happening over there! Holy Kreist...did you see how much sea ice melting this year? Ohmigod...the forest fires are starting up again across the west....damn the rate of sea level rise went up again...etc.etc. etc.