The Last Place on Earth Any Tourist Should Go: Take Antarctica off your travel bucket list.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/07/antarctica-tourism-overcrowding-environmental-threat/674600/

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Skyler@kbin.social · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

And although scientists who visit the continent to study its life and demise have a clear place here, many sightseers bring a whiff of “last-chance tourism”—a desire to see a place before it’s gone, even if that means helping hasten its disappearance. Perversely, the climate change that imperils Antarctica is making the continent easier to visit; melting sea ice has extended the cruising season.

I hate it here.

FlyingSquid@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 3y

I just came in to discuss that segment. It made me sick to my stomach.

InisSieferI@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

Damn I really wanted to see that place one day 😔