Tourism of Doom

(pix by Heidi Schumann) Love this picture-- am I susceptible?

Not just eco-tourism any more, it's the tourism of doom. Liberals and their faith-based apocalyptic visions. No matter that they may be hastening the destruction of the very places they've come to see. The road to hell...you know, paved with good intentions--the essence of liberalism. (Only they don't believe in hell, unless it's to visit places on Earth before it becomes a hell on Earth. Did we clear that up?) NY Times:

Abercrombie & Kent, a luxury travel company, is offering “mission trips” to environmentally sensitive locales. For the Antarctica mission under way now, the 22 participants, who paid $6,190 each for a 13-day tour, gave an additional $500 each to Friends of Conservation.

Some of that money helped buy a high-definition video camera, which the tourists will deliver to Palmer Station, an American ecological research center on the Antarctic peninsula, said Pamela Lassers, a spokeswoman for the tour operator. The camera will be used to film the behavior of krill, she said.

Each tourist receives a certificate of participation and a Climate Change Challenge Mission patch.

“For their expedition parka,” publicity materials instruct.

So cute, so liberal, a participation certificate. Everyone's a winner, if they can afford it.

What's the next doom boom?

Latest news from the North Pole at $22,ooo a crack--there is no Santa waiting there. (Don't you know--Santa doesn't do doom.)