Then in rode a small band of environmental groups and Justice Lamberth brandishing guns of enviro-morality. Dan Janzen is a scientific adviser to Costa Rica's Guanacaste Conservation Area and a University of Pennsylvania biology professor. Yet, somehow we don't find tourism as evil as biotech. The traditional ballyhoo for tourism's benevolence is that it doesn't extract any resources. But this is a myth.
Tourists take up space and time.
The difference between four people at a lake and forty degrades an experience. And people transport microbes. The environment is not sullied when a dollar exchanges hands. In fact, the environment benefits from the funds that commercialization can bring. Someone needs to let a small band of misguided environmentalists and one federal justice in on the secret.