No Escaping Climate Change for the Travel Industry Even When Covid-19 Becomes a Distant Memory
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Masks, social distancing, and vaccines can't stop climate change. It isn't a competition to choose the most dire threat, climate change or Covid-19, because they are interrelated. But taking a long-term view, climate change will be an existential threat to the travel industry, and the world, even as coronavirus fades.
It's always good to take the long view about world developments because our tendencies often are to get wrapped up in today's headlines, and understandably, in the crises of the moment. So if you consider the potential long-term impacts of climate change on the world — and the world of travel — then the Covid-19 pandemic will likely come to be viewed as a very painful, tragic footnote.
That's not to diminish the novel coronavirus catastrophe, which stopped the world in its tracks, and is on pace to claim one million deaths around the world before too long.
And that is not to say that Covid-19 is unrelated to climate change as there have been plenty of theories espoused on how the degradation of natural habitats has roused infected wildlife and brought them into increased contact with humans.
But with wildfires raging across much of California, Oregon, and Washington, meteorologists recording the highest temperature ever in Los Angeles County at 121 deg
