Word: ecotraveler
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...environment writer, I have always been doubtful of the value of "ecotourism." It seemed harmless at best, a scam at worst - a way to assuage the guilty conscience of travelers spending thousands of dollars to jet off to exotic locales. It was never clear to me, for instance, whether ecotravel was really any different from normal travel, except maybe for the involvement of more elephants and fewer cocktails on the beach. (And not even that, necessarily...
...survived - 90% of the country's original forest cover is gone - that I could truly fathom the risk. If environmentalism requires a revolution of consciousness, maybe that can't be done at home - even if traveling requires carbon emissions. As Russell Mittermeier, the president of CI and my ecotravel partner in Madagascar, says: "You've got to see it to save...
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