Tourism in times of climate change | DW Documentary

[@eriol33]

the situation in Mallorca reminds me of this quote: When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money. but then, water shortages because of tourism is quite common elsewhere. see jogjakarta and bali in Indonesia

[@harryhole5786]

Aha, a frequent traveller.

[@jakel8627]

There's plenty of water on Mars. Grow up and stop being negative.

[@harryhole5786]

@@jakel8627 And ? So what, there's also plenty of water coming from my water tubes. What do you need "Mars water" for ? Will it heal you ? Well, then suggest to Elon Musk to shoot you up there, as long as you'll stay. But kindly, don't come to ask me money for it: pay your own voyages. I won't sponsor "tourists".

[@tri3609]

This is the reason why the first time I decided to live in Jogja I choose to live far away from my college bcz the first place I found have it's own private well with big yard, 🌳 trees, I could also planting flower and herbs. Even after I moved to new place I still found 1 that have well, it's really stress free.

[@MrCanalon]

​@@jakel8627pick up a bucket and start pumping then...

[@utkank65]

“Eco tourism” = ask visitors not to use certain sun screen meanwhile keep building more and more accommodations

[@mycatspethooman5590]

And cut down the carbon absorbing trees to build them, makes you question the train of thought....

[@AgatBro]

so witty

[@PeterPerez.]

Most generalized comment ever

[@0xszander0]

Yeah those comments catch the general public. Things are nuanced. @@PeterPerez.

[@utkank65]

This one is from a tiny, beautiful Liuqiu Island in Taiwan- one of the places on Earth that is experiencing rapid coral bleaching due to warming sea temperatures. Of course every single small things we do is important and valuable but The things we do to damage is far greater than the things we do to protect/minimize our impact on the nature. Just like one of the interviewer in the documentary mentioned the tourism is never circular. That’s one of the reasons I personally cut down my international travels significantly. I live in Alaska- one of the most divided place when it comes to “climate change”. Some tourism companies here don’t even want to mention it to the tourists because it’s become such a stupid dividing political subject. Meanwhile, indigenous living in the coastal AK are dealing with the consequences greatly. No matter what we call it or not, it’s going to bite us on a**.

[@Maria-EU]

What's happening in Mallorca applies for Catalonia as well. It's ridiculous that we have droughts repeatedly and yet we don't decrease the number of tourist but instead we are actually increasing tourism. Locals definitely need to learn how to be water and energy efficient but I cannot understand why we are bringing in millions and millions of tourists to make the conditions so much worse.

[@anthonymorris5084]

How does it matter where people use water? What difference does it make if I use a hotel tap, or stay home and use my own tap?

[@laoch5658]

Mallorca will die without tourism..but thats what climate change frauds want, they want to destroy everything

[@Maria-EU]

@@anthonymorris5084 The water consumption of a tourist is much higher than that of a normal resident, and it does matter when you travel to a place suffering from droughts.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@Maria-EU You're trying to tell me I use more water just because I'm on vacation? If there is a drought, then the drought is the issue, not travel.

[@johanssonb]

@@anthonymorris5084 No, you use more water because you often come from places where water scarcity has never been an issue, and because yes, very often you don't give a shit if there's no water for the locals because all you want is spoil yourselves while you're on vacation and you don't have to deal with any consequences down the road.

[@withKnowledge]

Watching this video made me think that we need to consider something a little more fundamental. If the natural environment in which we live changes, all of our lives will inevitably change. It is natural that even our survival is threatened. "You cannot be dreaming now of happiness and all the wonderful things you are going to be, do and have. You have to respond to the changing landscape. When your environment changes, everything changes. When your climate changes, everything changes. When your resources are depleted, everything changes. Those who can see this and face this will find ways to prepare in a constructive way, not simply to fortify themselves, but to put themselves in a position where they can be stable enough to be of service to others." ~ Marshall Vian Summers

[@joshuasimon8780]

It is hard to be stable in this world but it is a challenge I am working to achieve in order to be of service to others as Marshall puts it. Thanks for sharing!

[@johnchapman5125]

Thanks for sharing.

[@TomNook.]

Just watched the apple event. It's the same in Big Tech. Companies, consumers going on about how green they are whilst using up more and more resources. Fast Travel, Fast Tech, Fast fashion. Destroying the planet.

[@lschmidt2405]

You might get the hotel replaced to carbon neutrality, but there's nothing carbon neutral about the tourists that turn up.

[@ingridakerblom7577]

That come there by airplane.. and get around in something that uses diesel..

[@lshwadchuck5643]

My thought exactly.

[@user-bi8ko7kc6h]

They probably want to lock everyone at home

[@vierikristianto1334]

Yeah. Human just need to die to be carbon neutral right?

[@MrMRKayani]

Tourism, like any other industry, is primarily driven by profitability, often overlooking the environmental and social costs borne by local communities. To ensure sustainable tourism and achieve net-zero impact, we must implement a robust framework of checks and balances, as well as standard operating procedures (SOPs). These measures will guide and compel everyone involved in tourism to act responsibly, safeguarding both the environment and the well-being of the communities they impact.

[@Feefa99]

Regulations is very prohibited word, but you actually successfully avoid it. Can't agree more.

[@MrMRKayani]

@@Feefa99 😁

[@ilkeadrall710]

Yeah tourism is driven by profitability but tourists are to blame. There's no sustainable tourism. Tourism must stop at once. Tourists are worst than terrorists.

[@dvandeun]

decentralization + global law. no more corruptible regulations pls.

[@avimarie9335]

Following the SDGs is more important than ever for businesses now, and I don't think enough people are educated on what the SDGs actually mean.

[@dhooomketu]

DW has really truly aced the art of making documentaries. Highly informative and impressive stuff ,kudos!

[@sararichardson737]

They are simply brilliant.

[@frontenac5083]

LOL.

[@shahlabadel8628]

Brilliant indeed, always!!

[@expatbiker6598]

08:34 the irony of water shortages caused by environmental issues while shooting drone footage with every house with a swimming pool in a place 5 minutes from the beach.

[@C_Tolea]

Bro they’re paying for it. A pool is an extra perk and it comes at a specific cost.

[@stekon9112]

​@@C_ToleaYes, the cost is wather shorteges.

[@C_Tolea]

@@stekon9112 Water shortages come from bad local town management. The city doesn’t invest in real infrastructure so they get what they paid for: shortages. There’s enough water in the seas and oceans to fill millions of pools.

[@ChattyLionheart]

@@C_Tolea except that's not water that suitable for filling pools, or for domestic use

[@wawbagel]

After advancing so much that even average working people in developed countries can travel the world to some degree, we’re heading back into times in which only super rich can afford it. Oh irony…

[@ingridakerblom7577]

It's not a right to pollute the earth.. I can't stand people who feel sorry for themselves if they can't go on some far away vacation every year.

[@wawbagel]

@@ingridakerblom7577 so good luck staying in your cave. Some people want to actually see the planet we’re living on. Experience it. Otherwise what’s the point? Oh I forgot, for some, the biggest joy comes from making stupid rules and forbidding others from doing things they don’t agree with.

[@wawbagel]

@@ardentenv I studied hard for a long long time. I started from scratch multiple times. And I work my ass off to support my family. So get lost with your “you sound entitled “. I’m entitled to hard work. The fact that some people on some desert live off of a dollar per day doesn’t make every single hard working family in the west rich. Check your “wealthy” definition again. And adjust it for different locations. And no, traveling isn’t only for wealthy nowadays. Compare how things are with how it was in the past.

[@PatG-xd8qn]

​@@ardentenv Almost 100 million Indians and 500 million Chinese people take the Airplane every year. Nowadays you don't have to be rich to afford a plane ticket.

[@gr8bkset-524]

The majority of the carbon footprint from tourists comes from flying to these faraway places, so, even if these tourist destinations were "green", it would affect the overall carbon footprint little. We really need to add a carbon tax to fossil fuel travel and make that tax progressively ramp up the more a person travels. I don't agree with the hotel manager that he shouldn't burden guests from sustainability. Guests, good ones, would even score a hotel higher for being environmentally conscious.

[@lshwadchuck5643]

Thanks for saving me some typing. Yes! "We really need to add a carbon tax to fossil fuel travel and make that tax progressively ramp up the more a person travels. "

[@Alto53]

This is an authoritarian solution. No thank you.

[@symenandsuebrinksma3670]

Can someone please help me understand why anyone would wish to see an environment that is being destroyed and will soon be gone ?😢

[@stekon9112]

Cause it will be soon gone. You want to see it before it dies.

[@igeorgoudi]

the worst thing is that locals destroy the environment to accommodate more and more tourists. It happens in my island in Greece.

[@nickplays2022]

Maybe to accelerate the process with produced gas emmissions

[@ZWD2011]

​@stekon9112 Or: want to see it before you help kill it?

[@roscow8569]

Human is like in a race, he wants to exploit everything as long as it is possible ! Human has not changed he carries on to search some gold mine, and above all he digs, he digs, he digs, deeper and faster as possible.

[@Layla09-cm]

Thank DW for another great documentary ❤

[@DWDocumentary]

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[@tassaryamin3865]

We all want to explore beautiful places in the world. So, tourism can't be stopped completely. We need to come up with practical solutions to attain sustainable tourism. There needs to be strict laws for tourists regarding use of resources, be it water, energy etc. Hotels can't say,"we don't want to disappoint customers" and then let people use limitless water, etc. After all, it's a matter of the survival of us as a species. We need to move beyond a purely capitalistic mindset. May we find the way out towards survival and attain ultimate peace and prosperity as a species.

[@dvandeun]

you drifted to the obscure with "strict laws for tourists". focusing on regulating the individual instead of the big players in the tourism-industry; a tourist will adapt, the fat cats and their lobbyists not.

[@arbaz79]

Another great documentary by DW regarding climate change.Keep it up 👍.

[@DWDocumentary]

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[@tomstieve]

Thank you. Very informative

[@DWDocumentary]

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[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Another wonderful and thrilled watching documentary shared by respectful ( DW) documentary channel.. thank you for sharing

[@elchapito4580]

LOL

[@sarkanyfog]

Respectfully towards the people talking in this documentary, one has to point out that global mass tourism itself is one of the factors of climate change. So flying to Mallorca, moreover: building new airports to Greenland and cruising around the melting ice with diesel boats will keep emission rates high and lead to collapse at a certain point.

[@leskuzyk2425]

The most intelligent shift in tourism would be to virtual. Keep fossil fuels in the ground. Eliminate travel. But, how intelligent are we as a species? Ah, but we want to keep our global north lifestyle. Not going to happen in any nice way.

[@anthonymorris5084]

Eliminate travel? How authoritarian of you. Stalin would be proud.

[@Ross-kp1dz]

you can do your part by logging off of KZbin, all those servers require lots emissions to be emitted. Do your part but it's probably easier to outsource your belief systems onto others then to take action by yourself.

[@LinhLe-cc9of]

I like to travel but not to a place where tourists are not welcome. I guess I can look at the place on TV instead .

[@alexcarter8807]

More excellence from DW. I'm in "Silicon Valley" which like the rest of the US has a very large "internal third world" with a then veneer of wealth. I make less than $20k a year, get around by bicycle, do my own cooking etc., in other words, while not perfect I think I do a fairly good job of being "ecological" and I still feel bad about the fact that I will take one final plane flight back to where I grew up because it is my home and I want my last years to be spent in my actual home. I've even looked up perhaps taking a cruise and "jumping ship" when it touches on my home port (less ecological than flying on a plane) or hitching a ride on a cargo ship (that's not really a thing any more) even buying a sailboat and sailing on my own back home isn't as "green" so there I'll be, hopping on a plane. I think tourism is a great idea but now with the internet it's possible to see so much of the world anyway, people can set up cams etc., plus, why not work on making your own area better? I know once I'm back home I plan to take part in what "ecological" activities I can and to do things to improve the place.

[@bikramjeet6536]

It's so pleasant to know that someone can be so climate conscious. God bless you.

[@wawbagel]

Oh Alex 😂 I strongly suggest visiting a psychiatrist. I bet there’s plenty in the Bay Area.

[@wendydamerell9323]

​@@wawbagelAn example we can all try to follow.

[@neothaka]

It's surreal to think that climate change will give a pass to tourists "who deserve to switch off their minds and not think about climate problems". There is no such liberty anymore. You go to these high-end hotels, you contribute to the issue. Unfortunately, the cost of those contributions are never seen or felt by those people, but instead by the local population.

[@whaleAndPetunia]

10:35 The Netherlands looks super weird without its lakes

[@navneetyadav3941]

Thank you!!

[@taicronck9559]

Nevertheless people are on vacation I think is common sense to conserve water and be considerate

[@MarsFranke]

"The ice-caps are melting, so lets fly to these places and see them, before they are gone". Find the contradiction. 🤣

[@christtheredeemer8192]

Can you describe it more ?

[@maramé.r]

It isn’t eco-tourism if you fly to your destination on a fossil fuel guzzling, carbon emitting jet or by a ship burning low grade oil. Combustion propulsion (non-hydrogen) isn’t defensible in terms of exacerbating the climate crisis. It would be more appropriate if visiting destinations such as Greenland and Svalbard to go there on a sailing vessel. Elsewhere electric trains or EVs. In polar destinations most of the energy consumed by tourism is generated by burning fossil fuels

[@scottblanche6657]

Taking a flight is the worst thing a person can do cause climate change.

[@anthonymorris5084]

Nope. Having kids.

[@user-qr7ee2cp4y]

One of the top 20 producers of pollution is international air travel .. it's more than many countries. Think about that before you go on vacation internationally

[@Hussainpiplodwala]

Sustainablity, Ecofriendly and all such words have become a joke in all the companies branding their products... Also the worse use of plastic which many travellers do is to wrap their bags at the airport with the plastic wraps and just throw away that plastic after reaching the destination...instead buy one custom size transparent plastic bag cover which will last with the bag forever and will actually display your flashy bag rather than covered in whole load of plastic and make your bag look like shit.

[@QueenBees456]

First tourism then colonizers due to climate change eventually they will want to stay…. Not a good idea to allow that in a developing country.

[@pedrolopes3542]

Following that same logic you should not be allowed to enter Europe... 🤨 Racism goes all ways, as you proved.

[@raymondcava4669]

Tourism is overrated and not sustainable. I totally agree. Short term gain Long term environmental problems and displaced local people. I’m thinking Hawaii.

[@DonnieIsNotAmerican]

It doesn't matter what part of the world people go to when the world is so overpopulated. China = overpopulated, India = overpopulated, USA = overpopulated, most African countries = overpopulated, UK = overpopulated. Maybe fix that first and these other symptoms of that problem might subside. The birth rates are just too high.

[@shahlabadel8628]

Exactly! Nobody is even addressing the issue.are they blind??

[@pedrolopes3542]

@@DonnieIsNotAmerican neither one of the countries that you mentioned has high birthrates, with the exception of Africa and the middle east, no other place in the world has birthrates above 2.1 children per woman, so almost every country will see the population decline in the next decades, the only reason why that is still not visible is because life expectancy keeps increasing, so people take longer to die, but even that is going in reverse in some countries now. Your rant made sense 50 years ago, now it is the other way around.

[@worldview2888]

This is an EXCELLENT produced documentary

[@Mitchell-me7bp]

What about traveling less? Aren't we all thinking that maybe the answer lies in the reduction of tourism?

[@Erik_The_Viking]

I prefer to vacation locally instead of flying to some remote place - easier, cheaper and more eco-friendly. I find it ironic that the so-called "eco tourism" is more damaging. There are ways that we can use better options but that can only go so far.

[@wawbagel]

So you’re not allowed to travel the world anymore? Back to caves? Crazy thinking. Pointless life.

[@lshwadchuck5643]

Agree!!

[@AssBlasster]

What counts as a "local" vacation?

[@lshwadchuck5643]

@@AssBlasster A non-flying one, in my mind. I'm Canadian, so without leaving the country my son moved 4500 km away. Skype is fine.

[@turtlerunner5791]

I actually know Pipaluk! We used to go in the same school ones and then she moved back to greenland!

[@tatianaweiss6254]

Expected case study on solutions, was getting a story of a student passing exam. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how we are dealing with climate change.

[@amodjp]

Video should have included the mount Everest, garbage disposal is difficult due to climate conditions

[@martiansoon9092]

When 2 years is not enough for restoration, then the next climate extreme may end the whole business. Ie. In California there have been places where houses has been burned down 3 times in a row and no insurances are given. Similar situation is in parts of Florida, where "sunny day" floods have ruined entire city blocks and people has no money to move out, because none will buy their house. It is also similiar to coral bleeching events. One harms the reef, next takes out plenty and third one says there is no reef. There is very little to do with these events. You may still relocate yourself, but when that happens to billions, then all available locations are already taken.

[@martiansoon9092]

Climate tourism should really start with showing what climate has done to the place. Tours to destroyed places could be sold to people who are still looking for tourists spots, but are interested what did happen.

[@martiansoon9092]

And in blah places like Rhodos, tour to see how the water is recycled would interest me more than useless tours they currently offer. Or go to a meeting with local climate activists. But that said. I won't fly.

[@lshwadchuck5643]

@@martiansoon9092 I'm with you. I Skype with my son who lives a continent away.

[@joso7228]

Go north - it will be cooler

[@lshwadchuck5643]

@@joso7228 Don't send everyone here to Canada!

[@sidali2590]

We need to address climate change now dammit thanks for covering this dw

[@gretareinarsson7461]

In my country the big cruse ships are the worst.

[@stefanandras9382]

I don't really understand how it can be called ecotourism since you are ruthlessly building concrete blocks so you can have as many tourists as possible. 

[@francesco245]

*Comments censored by DW on this page? What a surprise! (NOT.)*

[@leskuzyk2425]

Get a front row seat to watch a species destroy its own biosphere. Sad, to pathetic.

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

the film in my life, every day. I just need to watch what my friends, collegues and clients do.

[@NatiDeNut]

Hotels need to get over not wanting to limit water use.

[@xopi2521]

Interesting because I live in a hot climate and it’s much much cooler and more comfortable. I’m so happy finally I used to dread the 5 month summers.

[@wathnachhay5747]

interesting topic

[@SI-vb7hd]

Travelling the world is one of my favourite things to do and where possible I try not to fly but putting things into context is important. Flying produces about 2.5% of total CO2 emissions and of that a relatively small number of people (super rich etc) account for a huge percentage of those emissions. People should absolutely be conscious of flying and its environmental costs but making bigger pushes to decarbonise energy production, big industry and food production etc has the potential for far bigger changes.

[@ZWD2011]

The problem is, there are a lot of activities that only cause 2,5% of emissions. Flying is too cheap because the polluters (passengers) do not pay the true costs of the services. Hotel guests dito.

[@VonRix]

Yes, everyone should be allowed at least that one trip once a year. For example from north to somewhere warm in winter. But the rich who for their august holidays fly thousands of kilometres from perfectly warm Italy to Maldives or Madagascar just because beaches there are less crowded, well they should pay 20 times more tax. Because of that - money than used mitigate the climate change.

[@joso7228]

Or more investment in Green Aeroplanes.

[@wendydamerell9323]

Bicycling holidays can be done almost anywhere.

[@ChattyLionheart]

Yes, push responsibility away from yourself and onto other people. If everyone does that the problem will get solved, for sure. The thing is, food, energy and a number of industrial products (not all of course) are basic necessities, while the carbon emissions of long-distance travel in general and air travel in particular are largely UNNECESSARY, generated purely for the selfish pleasure of people like yourself. If we'd all cut back on things that are basically just enjoyable luxuries, the world would be a better place for it.

[@wendydamerell9323]

Bless you.

[@nimbo6576]

song at 13:40?

[@raquetdude]

Really want to visit Greenland at somepoint

[@ilkeadrall710]

Stay at home and leave Greenland live quietly.

[@AssBlasster]

​@@ilkeadrall710lol they want to bring more visitors

[@Truthseeker371]

Southern Europe operate tourism for six to seven months, not the whole year. That's the normal practice.

[@Marjana401]

southern europe is very general term- some regions may have even shorter seson, but Andaluzia or Catalonia in Spain its round the year. Streching the seson is part of solution for employment, but so many roof pools is unnecesary.

[@francisstjohn2194]

Let the hotel guests bring their own bed sheets and towels and wash them once a week.

[@anthonymorris5084]

What difference does it make who washes the sheets?

[@francisstjohn2194]

@@anthonymorris5084 😆 true! But if the guests stay for fewer days there is still some convenience. I try to convince my friends when they come to my house to bring their own sheets bag. Not easy. The majority are lazy and selfish.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@francisstjohn2194 I love how environmentalists are so quick to judge and embrace slander and insults. Perhaps people are not lazy or selfish and just disagree with you. Perhaps they feel that your position is rather zealous.

[@Allen667sjja]

A lot of eco tourism is feel good bs but I like the general idea/mindset of it, went on an ecotourism tour and hotel once and at least they generally tried to be better environmentally

[@gamingtonight1526]

Did you fly there?

[@adamgreenlee9084]

Some of it is actually places trying their best. Take Alaska for example. They know that people want to visit the small arctic towns and they know it's essential for local economies. So they try to make it as eco as possible.

[@deneb6139]

lol @@gamingtonight1526

[@Allen667sjja]

@@gamingtonight1526 no I canoed

[@ingridakerblom7577]

And what will that help? We need a DRASTIC change & FAST. Nothing done today is anywhere near enough.. this planet is doomed

[@deneb6139]

WHY YOU GUYS ARE SO GOOD AT PUTTING STUFF TOGETHER IN DOCUMIES?

[@banerjeesiddharth05]

Very nice and informative documentary 👍 👌 👏 😀 😊

[@LilouDesigns]

Eco-tourism --> Oxymoron! Say goodbye to your beautiful Island Greenland ;-)

[@betterpoliticsquetu]

tourism at this time on earth is immoral

[@vierikristianto1334]

Then make a promise to yourself to stay at your city your whole life

[@betterpoliticsquetu]

@@vierikristianto1334 what if im leaving a corrupt country? what im saying is for leisurely purposes. i havent gone on eco damaging vacation in yrs after being informed and even if i had the money i wouldnt until at least most ppl on earth are living well. nice try tho

[@vierikristianto1334]

@@betterpoliticsquetu dude, most buses use diesel which is still non carbon neutral. Even your EV is charged with non carbon neutral mix. at least wait until all the transportation mode use full electric on all renewable mix so that your vacation will be "moral" :)

[@betterpoliticsquetu]

@@vierikristianto1334 by vacation i mean staying at home and i agree driving gas car not good so i got rid of it and work from home but very minimal to other ways of transport also ev is not the best for eco friendly cause of cobalt plus still have bad materials like aluminum, steel, and rubber nice try tho

[@coleorum]

@@vierikristianto1334 You can get a long way on a bicycle.

[@joso7228]

After the Bali Bombings tourism fell for a few years and the local people were the ones who suffered the most. Tourism money is mostly re-invested by local Governments as they know they have to keep standards up.

[@lawrenrich6419]

Tourists asking about and expecting eco sustainability ? Please ..

[@byaprilio]

🔥🔥🔥

[@roscow8569]

In the North they want more tourism for the moment but at the end I laugh a lot of the outcome !! Money is nothing if you can not live in peaceful.😉 If you do not have enough hotels in your part, just ask Bernard Arnault he has the money do not worry.

[@ifrooscouldfly]

100% plant based menu will line up with the climate friendly goals

[@TheSapphireLeo]

Or just growing your own fruit and staying out of the colonial cities, and not buying from the cities, if any money to exist, until ended and only organic seed sewn nature?

[@MrCanalon]

That old german dude in the Palma hotel...

[@gaminglegend191]

The end approaches but the apocalypse is long lived

[@anthonymorris5084]

Not even close.

[@saishanaik1167]

Watching this vedio made me think that we need to consider something a little more fundamental if the natural environment in which we live changes all of our life might get affected or destroyed within friction of seconds Climate change is definitely a devastating source around us

[@IlTjaylI]

Come to kenya

[@ToudaHell]

As ecosystems are collapsing, it's the last chance to see them all before they disappear. I'm a nihilist. Just waiting for the world to blow up. 😊

[@anthonymorris5084]

You'll be waiting a long time. I'd get another hobby.

[@ToudaHell]

@anthonymorris5084 I'm already seeing it happening. Geoengineering is no longer a taboo word like it was 15 years ago. A world war is brewing on the horizon with nukes. The catastrophic warming feedbackloop is coming soon as the planet gets continuously warmer. Even knowing how it may happen is terrifying as I watch every worst case scenario predicted by climate scientists from 10 years ago is coming true. I have a postgraduate in environmental sciences. I'm very familiar with those scenarios.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@ToudaHell In the 1950's there were more bomb shelters in American back yards than swimming pools. People lived through the entire Cold war and the threat of nuclear annihilation for 50 years. Do you have any idea how many global ending catastrophes have been predicted by fear mongering zealots over the last 100 years? Most started with "scientists say". And yet, data proves humanity has never been safer, healthier or more prosperous than at any time in history. Get a grip.

[@lshwadchuck5643]

@@ToudaHell These trolls represent the reason we've been completely unable to make meaningful change. Victims of a successful four-decade disinformation campaign.

[@janonamouse8151]

Ecotourism doesn’t exist. Climate friendly travel is a contradiction.

[@onceupongeorgia]

More tourists means more money, more local employees, more economical opportunities.. yoi can buy 5x more water and etc...

[@January-iz1bq]

One side people's Neta crying climate chane. But what Russia Ukraine war does not impact on climates. Millions of ton explosive being expense in war it does not produce heat and does not rise temperatures of earth.

[@dlewis8405]

There are many ways to maximize efficiency of water use if there is money available. Water use should not be a barrier to growth. People need jobs after all.

[@anthonymorris5084]

We have desalination technology.

[@MrCyclist]

Greenland had better be careful on what the are wishing for. Mass tourism will destroy the local area. Where to put the increased waste, human and industrial. Humongous cruise ships add nothing to the local economy but leave an environmental scar once departed. No meaningful jobs are created.

[@JamestheChrist]

What is truly important will be made known.

[@maggieadams8600]

How can building 2 or 3 new airports be a way of dealing with climate change? Eco tourism, ha ha, not funny, but surely not serious either.

[@emilianoconde9647]

I wonder if the german eco tourists and operators support closing the nuclear power plants then having those EV charging stations powered by burning coal and gas

[@PeinTech]

Mallorca... 16 million tourists? How about this, 10e fee for water when they arrive 1m^3 of water desalination costs 1.2e to produce. From some search I did, this means 10e would provide 8300 liters of water desalination. Or even on steeper prices at least 3000l. Andratx and Alcúdia plants could grow with 160m euros to desalinate more. Thus filling their irigations and their reserves. I call b.s on any place with huge tourism

[@hildaelson4203]

Unspoiled nature is gonna get spoiled real quick. Just leave these places in peace. Seriously

[@anthonymorris5084]

The issue regarding this is over population, not warming.

[@joso7228]

Walking through a forest is not destroying it. Chopping it down for Big Industry is.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@joso7228 Does the prefix "Big" help you make them sound more nefarious? Why do you think industry chops down forests? Maybe take a walk around your home and do an inventory of everything that's made from wood including parts of the structure. Exactly how many forests do you think we require for people to walk around in? 362 million hectares of forest covers Canada. That's around 9 hectares per person.

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

Mallorca. I never understood this kind of tourism. If you go visit another country, the whole charm is, or at least the polite or even smart thing to do would be is adopting the local customs. why plant a huge hotel with swimming pool when the beach is nearby?? ofcourse the spanish gouvernment is guilty too because they encouraged this type of tourism since the 50s/60s

[@Truthseeker371]

The best solution is the employer and government pay to stay home. The tax payers tax will be recycled in the homeland and no overtourism.

[@Jane306]

Wait til they find out about bali

[@0xszander0]

Tourism uses more water, and then cites an incredibly flawed study. Another study found that tourism on average consumes less than 1% of a countries water resources. About 70% goes to agriculture. Not saying there's no issue in Mallorca. Tourism creates jobs the only way Mallorca solves this is by getting another source of income. Not by protests and being mad for the sake of being mad.

[@junekwan9960]

Human being (surely, I'm one of them) seems can never be satisfied ... When I live in a big city and I am admiring the lives in small villiage, I wonder why the people live in a quiet small villiage would like to develop their homeland to be a tourist spot. I really pray to God and wonder if I were very rich, would I still earn money without caring the earth... if I were a farmer, would I still want my place become a tourist spot? God said he will only give the most suitable trial to us, maybe he really knows I am a very greedy person

[@joso7228]

Well it probably starts with one local opening a small Hotel then someone else follows, then a Cafe and before you know it... you can see this happening on small Islands or beach areas.

[@ChiakiShirakawa]

I am very surprised that they do like much money than the nature familiar with in their childhood.

[@liberty-matrix]

"There are huge non climate effects of carbon dioxide which are overwhelmingly favorable which are not taken into account. To me that's the main issue that the earth is actually growing greener. This has been actually measured from satellites the whole earth is growing greener as a result of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So it's increasing agricultural yields, it's increasing the forests, it's increasing all kinds of growth in the biological world and that's more important and more certain than the effects on climate." ~Freeman Dyson, Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

[@hazzelonline8718]

"Climate change's negative consequences-such as drought and heat stress-would likely overwhelm any direct benefits that rising CO2 might offer plant life. It’s not appropriate to look at the CO2 fertilization effect in isolation. You can have positive and negative things going at once, and it’s the net balance that matters." -Richard Norby, research fellow in the Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute of Oak Ridge National Laboratory

[@ImproveYourMagic]

@bodieboy2012 Haha, try telling that to marine life! The largest extinction in history,… *96%* of marine species died off at the end of the Permian period. The "Great Dying" was *caused by global warming that left ocean animals unable to breathe.*. Earth's oceans became so inhospitable to life that some died from a lack of dissolved oxygen in the water, an excess of *carbon dioxide,* a reduced ability to make shells from calcium carbonate, altered ocean acidity and higher water temperatures.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@hazzelonline8718 Except there is evidence of greening, and zero evidence that droughts are being caused by climate change. In fact, the entire hysteria behind climate change is dependent on, "might", "could", "possibly" and other manipulations of language. I'd suggest you examine the data from actual events that have transpired instead of continuously embracing wild hyperbolic speculations of future events that never materialize. Upon doing this, you'll discover that humanity has never been safer, healthier or more prosperous than at any time in history, by almost any measurement you care to examine.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@ImproveYourMagic I see you're still here spewing lies about the Permian. The classic zealotry that prefers any kind of fiction that backs a predisposition rather than examine facts or cite actual science.

[@ImproveYourMagic]

@@anthonymorris5084 Lies about the end of the end of the Permian?

[@vipecrx]

What a load of bull. Everybody knows cyclists and walkers spend zero money locally compared to the real only attraction in the region. The nurburgring.

[@adamgreenlee9084]

Can't wait for the future when instead of Miami and Ibiza people are flocking to Alaska and Iceland

[@pedrolopes3542]

Are you sure you "can't wait"?

[@adamgreenlee9084]

@@pedrolopes3542 at the rate of global warming it shouldn't be too long :)

[@oleonard7319]

Eco tourism stay home.

[@tslee8236]

If 1 million locals for 365 days = 16 million tourists for X days. X = ? 🙃

[@piratapan]

There's a nuke in Greenland?

[@ExtremalMetal]

12:26 is that Cigarettes After Sex in the background? 😅

[@marianfrances4959]

Cruise ships need to supply departing passengers with water.

[@tracysmith245]

all goes into the sea the uk are doing the same in the water

[@henrietta1066]

Pollution, refuse thank you😢

Flood disaster, glacier melt and mass tourism 🤔 found separately on a First World Continent. Here you found them together in one country 🇵🇪😌🤭

[@TheDoomWizard]

We are awful.

[@exodus888]

climate change like seasons in a year 🤣

[@buzz5969]

Climates been changing since the BIG BANG and guess tourism been around not long after that and still here today.😊

[@sixvee5147]

May the Anthropocene (Pyrocene (?)) epoch make the Permian-Triassic extinction event seem like a minor footnote in the pages of Earths history. Hopefully, scenario SSP5-8.5 of the IPCC assessment comes to fruition and ends the Anthropcene. Enjoy what you can, while you can and pity the next 3 to 5 generations to come.

[@Roland_Tr909_Swing]

When china ,russia and india agree on reducing it..then ill listen

[@joso7228]

Well try asking them

[@Roland_Tr909_Swing]

@joso7228 why should I? its not my problem

[@anthonywakeman9136]

You mean a certain class of tourists will only be allowed to see their 15 min city, for the elite tourism will be great!

[@richardallan2767]

It's important that we keep focussing on how to fix and maintain the profit motive throughout our volitional extinction event. After all, it has cost us the earth, we might as well keep at it.

[@shahlabadel8628]

Ditto.well-said.

[@lshwadchuck5643]

Sigh, that's what I'm thinking as I watch this.

[@ЦзинКэ-ы5х]

You can't pronounce the Nuuk without N-U-K-E