Is Travel Destroying the Planet? : Post Reading Rant

Quoting the concluding remark in the interesting article by John Rosenthal as mentioned in my previous posts,

It would be a shame if concern for global warming persuaded people to stop traveling. Those who visit the Grand Canyon, Iguazu Falls or Ngoro Ngoro Crater can’t help but be awed by what Mother Nature has created, and wonder at humankind’s place in it all. Nothing has inspired me to act locally more than my own first-hand experiences in the glaciers of Patagonia and the cloud forests of Costa Rica. But we do need to remember the environmental costs of travel as well as the personally enriching benefits.

Even visiting man-made treasures like the Great Wall, the Sistine Chapel or the Pyramids of Egypt reminds us that we are merely the current tenants of this planet. Humankind has made tremendous efforts to preserve these pinnacles of human achievement for future generations to witness. The planet itself deserves nothing less.

SO FELLOW TRAVELLERS, WE CAN DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT AS THE PLANET DESERVES NOTHING LESS.