Reply #3: You should see the real costs of air travel and tourism

[Clara T]

The people of Thailand et al (It seems Thailand is the Globalization poster child these days as was Argentina before their fake economy crashed) are dependent on being servants to the leisure class because they are being pushed from their ancestral lands and forced into the service (SERVANT) economy for survival as well as being the cogs of cheap labor for the Western Market gadget seekers. Same pattern as everywhere else.

So while the planet burns people keep flying with all their personal rationales.

Nothing wrong with dressing up and partying why not make those events close to home. Is it necessary to fly a thousand miles to enjoy oneself. If this is the case it is a sad commentary on what we have created as our homes and daily lives (or what has been created for us which is the same economic model that is being exported all round the globe).

"As it has grown, so have its destructive effects become manifest, and these are greater than most of us might suspect. Along with television, tourism is one of the most potent agents of globalization — tourists are the shock troops of Western-style capitalism, distributing social and psychological viruses just as effectively as earlier colonists spread smallpox, measles and TB in their wake. And as with globalization, there are voices urging reform."