Experts suggest a reduction of more than 85% in your standard of living, especially in the US.
A report on the future of travel and tourism, co-authored by the travel agency Intrepid Travel and The Future Labs Institute, suggests a future significantly influenced by climate change and measures to restrict tourist travel in order to address it.
“A Sustainable Future for Travel” warns of ‘travel extinction’ where some areas suffer such radical climate change that all tourism there ceases, and “personal carbon allowances” that will restrict how often one is permitted travel.
From the report:
Carbon Passports
A personal carbon emissions limit will become the new normal as policy and people’s values drive an era of great change.
As demonstrated by a worldwide tourism boom, the frequency at which we can fly is once again seemingly unlimited.
Conscience and budgets permitting, we feel free to hop on planes from one place to the next. But this will change. ‘On our current trajectory, we can expect a pushback against the frequency with which individuals can travel, with carbon passports set to change the tourism landscape,’ says Raymond [Martin Raymond, Future Laboratories co-founder]
Personal carbon allowances could help curb carbon emissions