09-23-2018, 02:13 PM
I suspect that once the Republicans lose their make believe reality in which all is fine and climate change is a Chinese plot against them tourism will take a downturn as the true cost of air travel becomes apparent. As with all other things here in the islands the consequences of being so far from everywhere else will take its toll. Traveling so far for one's pleasure will quickly fall out of vogue when the fog has lifted and people understand the truth of our, as yet uncorrected, use of the environment as a dump.
Sugar died because the cost of importing fertilizer rose higher than the amount congress was willing to subsidize the industry (corporate welfare). Tourism was a disastrous replacement. But hey, when corporations want their profits in semiannual installments there's little one can do to appease them other than rape and pillage all they touch. The islands will only have a healthy economy when we sever our addiction to airfreighted goods and strive to feed ourselves rather than the imbalance we have now where all our money leaves the islands almost as fast as it arrives. Dollars taken in from tourist that in turn go away as profits made by big box stores is, in the long run, untenable. imo, of course.
Sugar died because the cost of importing fertilizer rose higher than the amount congress was willing to subsidize the industry (corporate welfare). Tourism was a disastrous replacement. But hey, when corporations want their profits in semiannual installments there's little one can do to appease them other than rape and pillage all they touch. The islands will only have a healthy economy when we sever our addiction to airfreighted goods and strive to feed ourselves rather than the imbalance we have now where all our money leaves the islands almost as fast as it arrives. Dollars taken in from tourist that in turn go away as profits made by big box stores is, in the long run, untenable. imo, of course.