The backlash against overtourism
Mass tourism is being treated as unique when really, we're discovering that everyone cannot have a "good" standard of living.<p>We can't all go travelling, we won't fit in the same place and we'll boil the earth doing so.<p>We can't all have a car because we'll boil the earth. If we develop EV's and don't boil the earth, they won't all fit downtown.<p>We can't all live in the country, that's not sustainable either.<p>We can't all eat high quality meat as often as we want. We'll boil the earth and it'll require too much farmland, anyway.<p>I could go on.<p>We either eliminate these experiences, accept economic inequality, or watch the experiences be eliminated via attrition (e.g. cars devolving into gridlock, tourism devolving into queues and displacement, ...).<p>I find this to be an odd aspect of certain political movements at the moment - unwilling to accept that the Universe _is_ actually a big competition, and either some people lose, or we all lose.<p>It sucks. But what's the alternative?<p>It's perfectly reasonable to drag people out of poverty.<p>But the idea that everyone should be able to do the same things implies a set of "things" very different from what, say, the middle class families on my suburban street do today.