Jeff Greenwald on Ethical Travel
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 03.13.07 | 2:15 PM ET
Greenwald chatted with us about ethical travel years ago, but today, he explains the concept in the New York Times. Ethical travel, he tells the paper, means “being mindful of what everyone who travels, for business or pleasure, should remember. This includes knowing where your money is going, respecting local customs, bargaining fairly and remembering to pack your sense of humor.”
Related on World Hum:
* Burma’s Ongoing Cycle of Despair
* Q&A with Jeff Greenwald: Travel During War
* No. 27: ‘The Size of the World’ by Jeff Greenwald
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Ron Mader 03.25.07 | 1:35 PM ET
Shades of Earth First!
“Sometimes I’ve had to give up more than pizza. A couple of months ago, I was scuba diving in Fiji. As my local guides and I motored out to a reef, we spied an orange buoy in the water. The buoy, we knew, marked a longline: an illegal foreign fishing line, hundreds of miles long, strung with thousands of hooks. These ‘walls of death’catch everything — dolphins, sea turtles and exotic fish. Instead of diving, the Fijians and I spent the afternoon destroying as much of the longline as we could. Not the leisurely day I’d anticipated, but far more satisfying than seeing an empty reef on my next visit.”
Wouldn’t it be better to work on an organized campaign with locals? While this no doubt was a satisfying experience, does an illegal response to an illegal action carry much weight? Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Or if we want to be Web 2.0-savvy, let’s create a global photo gallery that documents where these abuses occur around theworld to persuade officials that the reefs are worth protecting.