Venice, Canal Grande Photo: Ileana Johnson 2016 |
But we were a necessary evil
that helped many Venetians live off tourism. They complained about Americans
who trekked yearly by millions to see La
Serenissima, yet have allowed
economic refugees to invade and take over their businesses. We were even blamed
for their demographic suicide.
The group Italia Nostra (Our
Italy) wants the Italian government to ban cruise ships in the harbor and to
require large groups to book their visit ahead of time. Posters around the city
make it abundantly clear that some residents do not welcome tourists at all. Academia
predicts that “the native population could be zero as early as 2030.”
Apparently cruise ship visitors increased five-fold and rents have increased
accordingly, making it impossible for locals to afford a place in the city.
I know that apartments in Venice
and elsewhere in Italy are passed on from generation to generation, few renters
move away. Apartments are seldom available for rent and it has little to do necessarily
with the influx of tourists. Perhaps this may be true for potential new Italian
residents who wish to move into the city. Like any metropolitan area, especially
one so desired, rent is going to be high no matter what the circumstances.
According to Condé Nast Traveler, the famous Santorini Island in the Cyclades began in 2017
limiting the cruise ship visitors to 8,000 per day during the peak season. https://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2015-06-19/barcelona-bhutan-places-that-limit-tourist-numbers?mbid=social_facebook_aud_dev
If the United Nations succeeds
in their desired control and implementation of “sustainable tourism” around the
globe, Venetians may get their wishes sooner than they had planned.
And, like everything else the United Nations does very badly, the “sustainable tourism” control will wind up hurting Greeks or Venetians more than whatever damage Americans and Mother Nature itself may have caused to their fragile eco-system, waterways, and way of life.
And, like everything else the United Nations does very badly, the “sustainable tourism” control will wind up hurting Greeks or Venetians more than whatever damage Americans and Mother Nature itself may have caused to their fragile eco-system, waterways, and way of life.
If you have wondered if there is
any area that the U.N. technocrats might not wish to control, the answer is no.
They now want to control tourism by adding it to the U.N. 2030 Agenda as “sustainable
tourism.”
In case you are wondering how the
U.N. can do this, bypass the U.S. Constitution and Congress, how can they
regulate and control tourism, remember how, at the local level and without any
legislative input from Congress, United Nations has been able to implement its
Agenda 21/2030 via property rights modifications at the local and state
government level, using progressive realtors, architects, local politicians, “visioning”
committees, ICLEI, other regional planning committees and the excuse of global
warming, Smart Growth, Green Growth, and Sustainable Development, the lynchpin
of U.N.’s 1992 Agenda 21.
From page 8 of the Sustainable
Tourism document, “Governments need to enact laws to make the respect for human
rights binding for companies and investors working nationally and
internationally and to ensure access to legal remedies, as stipulated in the
U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.”https://www.tourism-watch.de/files/2030_agenda_internet_en_0.pdf
The United Nations has found tourism
as a novel way to milk the capitalist system of money. This 16-page brochure
explains that tourism is “one of the most important economic sectors worldwide,
with one of the highest growth rates.” Using globalism and environmentalism,
U.N. and its third world affiliates in need of more free cash infusions, seek
to control this resource as well because, in the process of tourism, first
world travelers cause serious CO2 emissions, “with serious consequences for
climate change.”(p. 5)
It does not matter that their half-baked
scare-mongering theory and tactics have been proven wrong time and time again,
they continue with the global warming alarmism, with no backing of real science,
just “consensus.”
Companies, investors,
governments, and World Tourism Organizations focus on the positive economic
effects of tourism. “The 2030 Agenda, however, combines poverty alleviation and
sustainability, economic development, environmental and social justice.”
Tourists will be thus controlled and travelers will have to pony up more taxes
to eradicate world poverty.
U.N. seeks to transform tourism
by designing it at the local level in such a way that they can control anybody
and any entity engaged in tourism, including the global strategy of emissions
reductions, especially in international aviation and shipping. The bottom line,
consumers will be picking up the tab and will be fleeced for their tourism. (p.
8)
U.N. aims to reduce carbon
emissions by abolishing any “subsidies for climate-damaging means of transport
and sources of energy and by forcing prices to reflect “the real costs,
including social and ecological costs.” (p. 8)
According to A. J. Cameron, “they
will use every means possible to achieve their selfish, unlawful, immoral, and
inhumane agenda. They use market-tested verbiage to obfuscate their ultimate
agenda. Erik Schmidt thinks most people are stupid, and, unfortunately, the
majority of people prove him to be correct. There is nothing good about the
U.N., yet it keeps advancing the agenda against little push back by Americans.
Never underestimate the greed and lust some men and women have for everything
everyone else has!”
Tourism is the new vehicle to swindle
Americans and U.N.’s third world bureaucrats know this. Since 1992 Rio
conference, technocrats from 178 countries have worked feverishly and
tirelessly toward the goal of globalist control under the U.N. umbrella,
in-between champagne and caviar dinners at conferences they attend regularly in
the world’s most desired tourist destinations, flying in jets spewing their
carbon footprint and CO2.
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