Traveling is bad for the environment no matter how "eco" the traveler is.And to drill in that point The Washington Post reports on four books that will "make you think about where you're going."
The titles of the books say exactly what you will encounter:
1) Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them
2) Disappearing World: 101 of the Earth's Most Extraordinary and Endangered Places
3) The Quest for Kaitiakitanga: The Ancient Maori Secret From New Zealand That Could Save the Earth
4) Across the Tibetan Plateau: Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Conservation
It seems like all the books' authors have actually traveled to the places they have written about. But nothing about if they used environmentally-sound traveling policies. The one thing that always bothers me is when pro-environmentalists go all over the world to show how bad the environment is but travel in planes or other greenhouse gas producing transportation, hence worsening the problems with global warming.
It seems to me a little hypocritical.
Read the full story: Traveling to the edge of extinction
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