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By SAM KEMMIS NEW YORK©2023 GPlusMedia Inc.
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GBR48
Don't bother coming to the UK. Our air traffic control keeps failing, and flights are cancelled as a result. The rail unions are on strike (along with almost everyone else) and the UK will soon be a patchwork of driving fees and restrictions.
Tourism is likely to expand from summer to spring and autumn in most places.
8% of emissions is quite low for what we get out of air travel. Other sectors can be reduced with less material loss. I wonder what the total emissions are for international and regional conflict. Perhaps we could ban wars to save the environment.
virusrex
The disaster in Hawaii is another aspect where climate change can affect destinations, many places that have not been previously affected by disasters are becoming more and more susceptible thanks to climate change, and this will end up also including popular tourist destinations.
Not to mention island nations that will end up with destroyed infrastructure or becoming submerged in the future, becoming impossible to visit them.
Kaowaiinekochanknaw
Get ready for carbon credits on everything you purchase and restrictions on how much you can do unless a massive tax is paid.
Digital currencies will make 'Transaction denied' a very big part of our lives.
From meat to travel. The turn off valve is tightening.
gcFd1
Many years to go before this becomes an issue.
As was seen in Lahaina, for example, there was a fire started by something other than nature, and in addition, there were winds from a hurricane that were responsible for the fire spreading.
People start fires, and hurricanes come near to or hit the Hawaiian islands. It's been like that for 100s of years.
virusrex
It is already an issue, and it is already very late to do something to control the negative consequences even if only considering travel destination.
Climate change affects how the disasters develop and in the specific case of Lahaina it has been correlated with the severity of the tragedy, this is already well known, and will have importance no matter how fires are initiated.
yipyip
No such correlation. My friends in Lahaina said an electrical wire likely started the fire and then winds from a storm increased the intensity of the fire. This is well known.
virusrex
You make no argument to refute the professional opinion of the experts that clearly have said so. Why claim something and then recognize you can't defend that claim by not even making an effort to argue for it.
That does absolutely nothing to refute the fact that enviromental factors clearly increased the potency of the firers, including of course the storm itself, The argument is not that climate change was the only factor, but one of them, so to refute the point it is irrelevant if you find other factors, what you need is to prove the climate change derived factors had no role, you have not done so.
https://time.com/6305817/maui-wildfires-climate-change-colonialism-essay/
https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-wildfires-climate-change-92c0930be7c28ec9ac71392a83c87582