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.We can't all go travelling, we won't fit in the same place and we'll boil the earth doing so.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.We can't all live in the country, that's not sustainable either.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.I could go on.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, ...).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.It sucks. But what's the alternative?It's perfectly reasonable to drag people out of poverty.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.