Climate Crisis AM 11/3
The climate crisis has started to harm tourism in many places. It is safe to assume that it will only worsen. According to CNN, the most recent example is Lahaina. Its tourism business has vanished and will not return. Isle de Jean Charles, an island just off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, once covered 22,000 acres. That is down to 320, the news outlet reports. The modest number who visited there won’t be able to anymore.
In a world where severe pollution can undermine work efficiency, matters have worsened rapidly and will accelerate. According to The Guardian, as the World Meteorological Organization was released, one observation was, “Many countries are already having to deal with the dangerous repercussions of record-breaking temperatures. Yet most are ill-prepared.”
Poor nations do not have access to the capital needed to fight the climate crisis. According to NPR, speaking about the poorest nations Pieter Pauw, a researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, said, “People do want to adapt, do see climate change coming, do know what to do — but there’s no finance available to actually do it,”
The Pulitzer Center released a report titled “How Big Finance Fuels the Climate Crisis.” Its conclusion:
The vast majority of financial institutions continue to provide essential finance and support to the expansion of fossil fuel production—despite the International Energy Agency’s finding that there should be no investment in new oil and gas infrastructure if the world is to keep within 1.5 degrees of global warming.
