While in Spain, Nick Steiner, the water restorationist, and I were involved in discussions with folks from the Spanish hospitality sector about restoring the water cycles and bringing back the rains there.
I grew up on my grandparents small hotel in an area heavily dependent on tourism so I really relate to this article and the idea of how do we create a slow trickle effect in tourism to regenerate the economy, community, as well as the environment in these areas. I would love to see a future where there is more interaction and education between hotels and small businesses, the land, and the tourists.
To be honest we don’t need regenerative tourism, we need an honest undoing of the intellectual underpinnings of the Green Revolution and all other transnatural ideologies. We need more farmers not more tour guides. Humans need to be made free to manage land that they can pass to their descendants, that is the most powerful mechanism of sustainability. Everything else is parochial colonialism telling the natives how to behave. We all belong to the Earth and the Earth belongs to us, we have no mechanism for ensuring our grandchildren will have this relationship because our society is structured in a way which cannot see that far into the future.
Cant say I agree with you entirely Dave. But I appreciate your concern for farming and our descendents. -I'm just two generations off the family farm myself. But climate change is for real and the water table is dropping all the time out here in the plains. Year after year we see that our part of the state is in the red part of the drought monitor and it's getting more and more costly to maintain yields. Something's gotta give for the family farmers. It's not praying for rain from those cloudless skies.
I grew up on my grandparents small hotel in an area heavily dependent on tourism so I really relate to this article and the idea of how do we create a slow trickle effect in tourism to regenerate the economy, community, as well as the environment in these areas. I would love to see a future where there is more interaction and education between hotels and small businesses, the land, and the tourists.
To be honest we don’t need regenerative tourism, we need an honest undoing of the intellectual underpinnings of the Green Revolution and all other transnatural ideologies. We need more farmers not more tour guides. Humans need to be made free to manage land that they can pass to their descendants, that is the most powerful mechanism of sustainability. Everything else is parochial colonialism telling the natives how to behave. We all belong to the Earth and the Earth belongs to us, we have no mechanism for ensuring our grandchildren will have this relationship because our society is structured in a way which cannot see that far into the future.
I agree we dont need more tourism. What we can do is convert more of the current tourism to being regenerative tourism
Cant say I agree with you entirely Dave. But I appreciate your concern for farming and our descendents. -I'm just two generations off the family farm myself. But climate change is for real and the water table is dropping all the time out here in the plains. Year after year we see that our part of the state is in the red part of the drought monitor and it's getting more and more costly to maintain yields. Something's gotta give for the family farmers. It's not praying for rain from those cloudless skies.