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Let us make it worse.  Read the opening paragraph ...

Granted, it is still a niche market. But if the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to be believed -- and why not? -- it's a growth opportunity. The traveler in the very near future might be ready for some global warming tourism. Vacation destinations? You could do the Maldives and watch the sea level rise before your very eyes. Glub glub. Bye-bye, happy island nation. Or perhaps a trip to the African Sahel to experience some scary soil evaporation. Subtle, but profound. Or you can do what we did and journey to Icy Bay in Alaska and just watch the world melt.

Written in a typical travelogue, breezy nature.  

Turned / turns my stomach.

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by a siegel (siegeadATgmailIGNORETHISdotPLEASEcom) on Mon Jul 16th, 2007 at 06:42:14 AM EST
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Granted it is still a niche market.  But if the FAO is to be believed -- and why not? -- there is a growth opportunity to travel to various parts of the world and watch people starve to death.  Think of the thrill of sipping champagne and eating pate while outside your window you can see:

With the right 'package' you can even watch desperate people fight to the death for the last scraps of food.  

And blah-blah-blah ...

Over the top?  Not really.  That's how Climate Change will be affective wherever people are dependent on subsistence agriculture for their food supply.

by ATinNM on Mon Jul 16th, 2007 at 11:15:43 AM EST
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My better 95+%'s reaction as well:  "Why not tourism packages to Darfur to see genocide or to a famine?  What were these people thinking?"

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by a siegel (siegeadATgmailIGNORETHISdotPLEASEcom) on Mon Jul 16th, 2007 at 11:44:27 AM EST
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