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I was trying to write something positive or
at least meaningful about tourism in this climate, but all that comes to my mind
is what a horrible February this has been worldwide: more political bloodshed in Nepal,
religious atrocities in India, televised decapitations in Philippines and Pakistan,
all out war between Israelis and Palestinians, war apparently resuming in
Afganistan. Unsurprisingly the Bulletin clock
moved forward 2 minutes. So, is this the new millennium or the new
middle ages? We urgently need able and imaginative leaders - this is not a spaghetti
western - to sort out this mess before anything worse happens, such as moving
further back from the new middle ages to a new stone age. In December 2001, the
top brains of this world, 110 Nobel Laureates, signed a declaration saying
"To survive in the world we have transformed (a
polite choice for a verb), we must learn to think in a new way". I think we
have to think fast: 7 minutes to midnight.
And now to change your mood...
---->Real vs. Surreal:
``A live whale is worth more than a dead whale.'' - Hector
Ceballos-Lascurain, Director general of the Program of International
Consultancy on Ecotourism (Associated Press, 24/2/2)
``It is natural for many Japanese people to enjoy both
watching and eating whales, It is like eating BBQ after a farm tour in New
Zealand.'' - Joji Morishita, a deputy director at the Fisheries Agency
of Japan. (Associated Press, 24/2/2)
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