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World Tourism and Power: The Paradox of the Biggest Job Creator
Global tourism employs millions, generates huge revenues, but like many of man’s solutions, including creating power, ends up potentially costing the earth. According to shift happens, the world’s education systems are training young people for jobs that do not yet exist, to solve problems as yet unrecognised, as technology marches ever onwards, drawing on resources that are at best, finite. However, the world has to go as it is today, preparing for tomorrow as best it can . Conservationist Mark Duchamp, pointed out that there are over 6 billion consumers currently on the planet, almost all of whom require large and regular supplies of food, water, energy. He believed more funds must switch into a hydrogen economy, more research done on renewable energies, there must be mass harnessing of solar and geo-thermal … Read entire article »
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