A climate-conscious reading of ‘The New York Times’ list of ‘52 Places To Go in 2024’

‘This is a screen capture of ’52 Places to Go in 2024’ by ‘The New York Times’. The image used by ‘NYT’ is by Susan Wright. “GT” added “CLIMATE conscious?”

Climate action advocate Herb Hiller offers a climate-conscious reading of The New York Times’ list of ’52 Places to Go in 2024’.

It is his second “Good Tourism” Insight.

[You too can write a “GT” Insight.]

People love to travel but keep getting shoved around. We live in an epoch of catastrophic global warming, which frequently forces us to change our travel plans. (We haven’t yet reached mid-winter in the northern hemisphere, but freakish cold storms are already diverting us from intended destinations.)

Contents

• ‘[A]bsolutely gobsmackingly bananas’
• Travellers don’t always mean what they say about climate action
• Our trips can help us rebalance Earth’s prospects
• Missed predictions
• New challenge
• What do you think?
• About the author