The Brutally Honest Sustainable Tourism Video
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- čas přidán 29. 10. 2020
- It's not always easy to see the difference between being green and greenwashing... between protecting the environment and protecting the brand. Many are doing things well, but the industry is far from where it should be, and when it comes to small improvements, there's plenty of low-hanging fruit. Making real improvements is going to require a team effort, and travelers can encourage good behavior by voting with their wallets. We should reward those who are really trying to make improvements and steer clear of those who aren't. To those in the tourism industry who aren't enlightened enough to embrace the environment, perhaps they will do it because it's smart business.
When it comes to travelers' decisions, maybe we need to be better at picking a beach or ski resort or city just a little closer to home. Even choosing a destination that's 1 - 5 hours away by plane instead of 7 - 14 hours away makes an enormous difference. With current plane technology, there's really no way to have an eco-trip if we're starting it with an air travel journey that's more than a couple away.
Everywhere is a walking distance, if you have enough time! This is one of my slogan of life. Thanks for the great video
So I guess you don't travel much
I am here for two reasons. One is I love his Chanel, two because his videos are really interesting.
Thanks... for both reasons.
Three because his mic is so soothing
@@jec_8060 oh yeah
4th cuz it's dead honest
I'm sure he confiscated that cocou chanel
I'm gonna star subtitling your videos to spanish, this ideas are really worthy for my students on tourism
Wow, that really puts everything into perspective!
Thanks for commenting.
@@rethinkingtourism4862 - thank you for making a great video!
I really hope that COVID forces governments and people to develop their economies and businesses in a post tourism sense.
We don’t need the tourism of Instagram selfies. Tourism to learn can be replaced with the multitudes of resources available in libraries and online, even to chat with locals.
Travel should be kept essential even after the pandemic is in the past.
Agree
Western Sakoku
Sounds like elitism to me, people should be allowed to travel. Or do you want only the rich to enjoy the world then.
We already have. It's called "The Great Reset"
No travel for plebs. Only the billionaire socialist elite who greedily consume vast resources, will be alble to travel.
Enjoy your mass produced, non descript, second hand hemp uniform!
@@vixtravels People slitting their own throats giving away their freedoms.
To help sustainable tourism you need to remove plastic from the equation entirely.
I like the cocktails for picking up trash idea
4:33 : electric motors are quite common for cruise ship propulsion. Problem is they’re powered by diesel generators.
I have said all my life that to realy understand and realy care you must have walked the same journey . When you visit someone in another place find a way to walk there. Try it. It will be the most astonishing thing you ever did .
Just found your channel and love it!! Everyone needs to know about it!!
🧡🧡🧡 So happy to have just found your channel! Theres some really great messages in here I feel a binge of your vids coming on 😊
I wish you were still posting to this channel, as your work is so good! 😀
Love this video, thank you n thank your for making this channel 🥳🥳. I will share this video to fb groups n zw groups that i manage 😁
I love your videos, very witty. Subscribed, watched all. Waiting for your next episode.
The funny thing is the simple stuff works but doesn't look good when the big fancy stuff doesn't work but looks good.
Pretty new here, but I just want to say amazing and eye opening content, QUALITY!
I'm loving what I'm seeing, I've watched about 4 of your videos!
I like how this dudes video are more straightforward than a lot of people’s videos
Still don’t get how high quality videos lead to 160subs
I cant see how many subscribers he has
Called shadow banning I’d say
Awesome videos. Leaving a comment for the algorithm.
I don't even try... I want a sasquatch sized carbon footprint... the more 'green' a place is, the less likely I am to visit...as long as they continue to make gasoline & gasoline powered vehicles, I'll never buy an electric vehicle...
Do the world a favor, have one less child. Or even none. It’s quite refreshing.
This is painfully underrated get these to the officials
Great job! Let's break this channel out!!!
Nice man ✌🏼
Excellent
I love these, because I learn something new, and it can be pretty funny.
I see this a lot from the Hotel that employes me. Eco-key initiatives, towel re-usage, recycle everything despite that everything cannot be recycled but then I see the implementation of gas fireplaces outside of the hotel, these are propane much like your bbq but without the heat and just for looks. People do not realize that these pits of propane run 8-11hrs a day for no reason. We dump water into the pool system likes it free. When a baby shits in the pool the cost is outrageous. All that water must be dumped into the sewage lines and then the pool is refilled with fresh potable water. How about the air conditioning in newer hotels that run a sealed environment system, when those fail it usually results in the system dumping tonnes of CFC R12 that's the ozone depleting type. Many hotels run with older HVAC systems because they can get away with the cheaper systems and your local HVAC technician really appreciates all of the daily maintenance in $/manhr. Newer, better systems are out there but they cost an enourmous amount of money to install, if it was not done at the Hotels conception. So, don't be fooled by ECO anything if it involves some company making money off of that impression.
Wish more people would approach becoming greener, as something you can do on all scales.
Many people would happily do so but they lack awareness of the range of simple actions they can take. Currently there is a scattered approach to raising awareness. We need ten week courses, one hour a week, to help people discover ways to contribute to a greener approach to life.
I never heard a utensil suggestion. The wooden sporks look cool - who is giving those away? I had no idea cruise ships were so carbon intensive (the first clue was the omnipresent diesel exhaust smell).
so true!!!!
I am here for some it.
Does anyone have a source on the "immediately repurified water showers"?
Managing the experience.
to know the right direction for those little steps would make this work. I think by now we dont know the correct direction, so we should take bigger steps. Its more effort, but time is always the same for everyone.
If you happen to have been wrong on your Solution you can turn around hopefully at the same speed and will have done more in the same time.. unless you already know what saves our world.
Hey, could you please provide sources for the numbers of carbon savings from a green hotel etc mentioned at the start? Thank you
A very good and true article. I agree to 100% but human greed and ignorance are a much mightier weapon than common-sense based proposals.
The only good thing is, that mankind is sawing down the branch their sitting on. Nature and planet will recover as it has happened from time to time over the history (spoiler alert for Creationists), but mankind will not be a part of it anymore.
I will definitely trade in rubbish for cocktails.
Haha please do an honest one about cruise ships and the corona particles 😂 and how “eco friendly” they are. I’m amazed how many people are still planning cruises….
4000kg of co2 for the airline is 1000kg of carbon. The efficiencies of airlines is 30 to 40 l/1000km per person. Take the worst one. 40l of jet fuel is 128kg. To get to 1k kg C you would have fly 7.8K km. That is quite a bit of flying.
Well put. Science rules the day. But a round trip to the Caribbean from Europe or Canada is in that neighborhood of Kms, and is definitely not uncommon. And for anyone heading to Aus/NZ/South America/Africa it's even further.
A good way to think about it is flying is about the same as solo driving in terms of carbon intensity. But you don't drive nearly as far as you fly.
The RIGHT thing to do is redesign the WHOLE INFRASTRUCTURE and that will require a WHOLE NEW EDUCATION based on science.
I really hate the fact that there are people who always say "what's in it for me? I've already lived a long successful life I'm gonna die anyway"
Oh… I’m sharing this given the fact that I live on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Math and statistics really forces the perspective.
Man my mom wanted to take us on a cruise for her birthday
the problem with trying to be ecologic is that what people think is ecologic is not.
electric cars pollute more than gas cars. example: the lithium mines in africa that provide electric car manufacturer don't have regulation on how much pollution they are allowed to do. they don't care about ecology. another point is that electric cars often use energy from petrol or coal powerplant. using a gas car that was built in the usa that has ecological regulations actually pollute less.
plastic makes less carbon than paper, but only if recycled properly. making sure that people recycle their plastic after washing it would be a better solution than just putting a trash can. you could make a deposit when people buy a single use plastic case like they do with alluminum cans.
Can cruise ships be using nuclear engines?
Great video. Please do one about nuclear weapons
The only brutually honest thing you could have said is to STOP travelling half way round the world to these places. Hopefully COVID will make long haul travel costs so expensive that only a few will be able to travel to these destinations, and we can all see these places on Instagram. It would be good to see tourism dying down|out, esp with all the problems it causes.
You are not incorrect. But trying to balance that with the reality of travel. Might be easier to get someone in London to choose Greece over South Africa if they are looking for a tan...instead of telling them they can't go anywhere. Not going to tell everyone they must be vegan tomorrow or only buy 2nd hand clothes... if it's too extreme, people will likely tune out.
Except I don’t travel to take selfies and I’m not really interested in someone else’s instagram journey. I travel to meet people and to talk with them. I don’t think instagram can curate that experience for me.
@@rethinkingtourism4862 Veganism, the new Organic...something for the middle classes like Extinction Rebellion, another thing to make you feel better about yourself and having no impact at all. I know where you're coming from and don't disagree you can't go heavy handed. Package holidays, cheap flights, social media, bucket lists, gap years, etc. have made people believe it's their "right" to go where ever and whenever they like to, well now you have millions of Chinese and Indians to add to that number...see the problem? It's a problem of numbers, ever been to a Mediterranean town/city when the cruise ships dock? The rise in airbnb lets pricing local people out of their home towns, Barcelona for instance. And then you have to ask yourself why do people need to fly anywhere to get skin cancer? I just don't think that's realistic, responsible or sustainable long term, especially post-Covid. Maybe people would do better re-framing their expectations.
@@sherunswithscissors I have nothing against amateur anthopologie at all! Shame you can't find people closer to home that interest you. Instagram only used as an example to those how travel for hours to look at a beach, monument, etc. take a selfie and tick a place off their list. Having done it I just find it a self indulgence and not worth the time or expense, tbh.
@@CheetSheatOverlodeTrue, some people will always "want" to travel, but the cost and accessibility of cheap travel is driven by numbers.
Societies existed for thousands of years where some peoples" extent of their world was their villages/towns and they survived with no ill effects, as we are evidence of that. We didn't evolve by be coming tourists... We actually made the world less safe by doing so...current pandemic being an example.
What we need to do to lessen the damage is limit our range and mode of our travel to be effective.
Yes, the food I buy has more air miles than I do. Fly once every couple of years, short haul mostly. And there's a lot to be said about the good of staycations.
why is your channel number private?
I wonder if there ever going to be made Nuclear powered cruise ships, like the American Supercarriers
Yes shore Eco is good and we all should do it! But... There will always be a sum one who want to take advantage of that. Bij putting a big price one it. And not everyone can handle these prices!
Hey I _need_ s shower like that, how can I get one?
🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
So in simplification to go eco the mind set need to change into expensive good, cheap bad, and long term needs to be the main goal in place of short term.
Hi, actually cruise ships are using huge electric motors for propulsion :D Unfortunately their electric generators use fossil fuel :D
u want the more brutal honesty about hotels?
Their layour makes sense because they want to maximize usage per square inch.
But the layout is super illogical for ventilation, and totally rely on mechanical ventilation 24/7
Same goes to housing, apartments, etc.
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have time"
I live in the US and my partner lives in Serbia... let me call up Jesus real quick lol
I do love a healthy cup of self-righteous lecturing and shaming to go along with my vacations. Nothing says "relaxing vacation" like crusading for my favorite woke political cause every place I go and demanding that all tourists give up any and all modern conveniences when traveling.
Ban non reef friendly sunscreen simple as that
Hehehe, SUStainable
Not true, not everywhere is within walking distance with enough time.
Ahahahhahaha perfect
This is not brutally honest but full of greenwashing itself. You can't say plastic spoons are universally evil and recycling showers are universally good unless you've done a proper lifecycle analysis for each specific use case. Nobody cares to do that as long as they can use either to greenwash the s*it out of their customers.
Source: I have a major in environmental management.
And sorry, as far as tourism is concerned, the only way to sustainability is less tourism (or those sailing cruise ships you mention).
Cringe... Plastics are arguably better at preventing climate change (at the moment) compared to alternatives. Say some cardboard boxs that are only slightly better than plastics in GHG emissions under generous assumptions about where they got their papers and they cause more problems pricesely because they are degradable... As in, if they end up in a not modern enough landfills they will release methane gas as they degrade and all the GHG benefit calculations goes out the window and paper becomes so much more damaging to the climate than anything else.
The problem you might be contributing in solving would be the ocean plastic pollution, but less than a percent of plastic waste is mismanaged in wealthy countries and at least in many cases I've looked into and ran the numbers (for example Geami) you're actually better off paying people who clean up ocean plastic waste directly (or donate it to better waste management in indonesia etc) instead of spending it on plastic alternatives in your wealthy country's regulated businesses, which are sometimes 2 or more times expensive than just using plastics.
Plastics look bad to you and makes you feel bad, so people try to get rid of it. But there's surprisingly little evidence that changing it to available alternatives will actually help the planet. The (mostly paper) container alternatives are... even when they are not just flat out counterproductive, still too unscalable or expensive enough to honestly say they can be the solution. And what if we get a truly carbon neutral synthethic or bio crude oil alternatives by then? It will solve both aviation fuel and plastic raw resource extraction problem and the problem will be just making fishing industries and waste management systems in poor countries who are responsible for mismanaging plastic waste in a scale that matters.
Do better research. Cynicism only gets you so far.
@Andreas Glad I'm sorry to hear tou say that. That you are the one who's delusional and you are so confident in it to go around calling other people that they are.