http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/2008/02/14/where-in-the-world-is-budget-travel/ Ideas about travel and everything else, collected while traveling the world Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:53:13 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/2008/02/14/where-in-the-world-is-budget-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-2620 Traveling Hypothesis » We need a breakthrough Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:22:47 +0000 http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/2008/02/14/where-in-the-world-is-budget-travel/#comment-2620 [...] Yesterday’s post was supposed to be about the changes in budget travel, but it was really about what happens when the developing world develops. The simple fact is that it’s usually great for individuals to have more cars and cellphones and food and fashion choices, but we’ve got to face that it’s not necessarily so great for trees and bunnies and the earth. As we humans take up more and more space, use more and more resources, and consume more and more energy, we’ll surely race towards a point where our status quo of cars and coal-plants will take too great a toll. [...] [...] Yesterday’s post was supposed to be about the changes in budget travel, but it was really about what happens when the developing world develops. The simple fact is that it’s usually great for individuals to have more cars and cellphones and food and fashion choices, but we’ve got to face that it’s not necessarily so great for trees and bunnies and the earth. As we humans take up more and more space, use more and more resources, and consume more and more energy, we’ll surely race towards a point where our status quo of cars and coal-plants will take too great a toll. [...]

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