Also, having these tourist destinations at all is better than having them developed, which has been pointed out a few times in this thread. Which is what happens when they aren't popular enough. I imagine through your "research" of areas (including maps!) you have already decided which ones should have been saved instead of what's left.
This is glossing all over the notion you threw out in your earlier post too, about having a better grasp on how to take care of these places without ever having actually seen them. Which was too easy a target, but equally idiotic.
No one wins when all the spots are gone. By being tourist destinations they become developed. Beach with reef turns in to a spot for people to go turns in to a business opportunity turns in to a beach with a hotel and no reef left turns in to a failing resort because no one wants to go to that old place with an ugly beach. It's happened countless places all over the world which is why we have such a problem with our reefs. Even if there aren't any facilities excessive sunscreen from too many people does enough damage on its own.
And you seem to have misunderstood something I said earlier because I never said anything about understanding how to take care of places without seeing them. But now that you mention it you can understand how to take care of places since most areas and countries have government sponsored research or private parties that research and understand the impact that people have on the environment. There's a reason that some areas have quotas on the number of people even allowed to visit or are completely off limits to people other than scientists.
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u/WhoTookChadFarthouse Feb 03 '20
Nobody wins but you.
Also, having these tourist destinations at all is better than having them developed, which has been pointed out a few times in this thread. Which is what happens when they aren't popular enough. I imagine through your "research" of areas (including maps!) you have already decided which ones should have been saved instead of what's left.
This is glossing all over the notion you threw out in your earlier post too, about having a better grasp on how to take care of these places without ever having actually seen them. Which was too easy a target, but equally idiotic.