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News Comment #10

November 10, 2022

Popular glaciers could disappear within the next thirty years.

UNESCO, United Nations’ educational, scientific, and cultural organization started the World Heritage List in 1978 which has popular tourist destinations worldwide. Some destinations include the Great Wall of China and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Being on this list means a location is a top tourism destination.

Another place on this list are the glaciers at Yosemite National Park. A report from UNESCO last week said by 2050 a third of them are expected to disappear due to climate change.

Other glaciers that are expected to disappear are the last ones remaining in Kilimanjaro National Park in Africa, Mount Kenya also in Africa, Italy’s Dolomites, and ones on Pyrenees’ Mount Perdu.

There will be a climate change conference in Egypt; however, this creates the challenge of traveling to this event. Traveling has a carbon emissions footprint of eight to eleven percent. Aviation has seventeen percent of carbon emissions.

A UNESCO researcher says, “The glaciers will disappear regardless of any climate scenarios.”

This is news because if the national parks or places where glaciers are present disappear, then people will have less choices to travel to. Countries that have a park that brings tourists into the country could potentially lose business. Tourists are coming in to look at the glaciers, but they are also looking at other things too. They also have to eat and may want to shop, so this creates business for these countries.

I have never seen any of the glaciers across the world, but I would like to at some point.

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