you have visited a tourist spot during your holidays you are quite upset by seeing the plastics and the other unwarranted littered here and there it became a disgrace to the heritage and culture of our country the tourist and foreigners also visit that place carting a wrong message to our incredible country write an article to publish in the newspaper to awaken the people and to take necessary steps to preserve culture
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According to a recent article in Vox, tourism in “last-chance” places — destinations that will be drastically affected by climate change over the next century, such as the Florida Keys or Bali — is rising, and contributing to local environmental problems, not least of them plastic pollution.
But when it comes to the relationship between over-tourism and plastic pollution, the headlines don’t paint the full picture, an expert at Conservation International says. While it’s easy to pin these issues on over-tourism alone — more humans equals more trash left behind — the reality is much less black-and-white.
In the Galápagos Islands, beaches are littered with plastic bottles that can trap and kill young marine iguanas and crabs. Plastic bags float throughout the ocean, filling the stomachs of whales and tricking them into feeling full while they slowly starve to death.
But this isn’t the result of your one-week vacation. This is the result of a deep-rooted global problem: How we use things — and how we get rid of them when we’re done.
Tourism in the Galápagos Islands has been on an uptick for the past decade. In 2007, 161,859 people visited the islands; in 2018, that number had jumped to 275,000.
It would be easy to assume this rapid growth in tourism is responsible for the plastics littering the islands’ beaches. But in reality, much of the trash washing ashore comes from much farther away.
“Vast amounts of plastic garbage and litter washes up on the Galápagos Islands’ beaches,” Mariana Vera, Galápagos program manager of Conservation International Ecuador, said. “While some of it is a result of the increase in tourism, the vast majority of it is not. Currents push garbage and plastics from South and central America, and the United States onto the islands and coastlines.”
“The solution to the plastics problem,” she said, “isn’t to exclude tourists from visiting. It’s to reduce and redesign global consumption.”