Countdown to loss
January 24th, 2008 by rbanks
I saw this article on climate tourism the day after Shannon and I discussed going to the Giant’s Causeway before it disappears. Sad. It reminds me a little of our trip up the Yangtze River just a few months before the Three Gorges Dam was completed. Most of what we saw is now underwater.
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kuma Says
What? Giant’s Causeway is disappearing? WHY? tell me the reason?? I’ve always wanted to go there and I don’t want to see it disappear. As for the yangtze river, i think the case reminds us that, it’s not just the ecological heritage we’re losing, but the culture of indigenous people. By flooding the river and moving people around, relocating them to other areas to promote tourism seems to make everyone tourist-but forcefully!
May 14th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Pat Says
I was reading a book about Denmark travels. And it mentioned a place which was designated to look like old village back centuries ago and people are invited to move into those houses to live- tourists can take a peep at what life was like centuries ago. Why, if we like to see how locals live the traditional way, we just displace all the indigenious people everywhere and make places disappear?
May 18th, 2008 at 6:57 pm