Most holiday makers stay within their own region. Only every 5th travels abroad. In china too, more and more people have been bitten by the travel bug last year, it was 137 million. A particularly popular destination is thailand. Almost 9 million chinese went there in 2016. This is what rush hour in paradise can look like. At ten in the morning, the first speedboats from phuket arrive, brimming with chinese tourists. This beach was once a jewel empty and pristine. But that time is long gone. Jareed takuathung seems to be the only one tasked with tempering tourists activities here. He is the head ranger of maya bay. But his task is not easy. There are some areas here that should be offlimits, to protect nature. But the chinese just go right in. I then tell them, hey, dont do that. but they cant understand me. Sometimes they just laugh at me, as if i had told a joke. Maya bay is part of Ko Phi Phi Leh. The island used to be considered the crown jewel of the andaman sea. Thailands Tourism
Every 11th job in the world depends on tourism. Most holiday makers stay within their own region. Only every 5th travels abroad. In china too, more and more people have been bitten by the travel bug last year, it was 137 million. A particularly popular destination is thailand. Almost 9 million chinese went there in 2016. This is what rush hour in paradise can look like. At ten in the morning, the first speedboats from phuket arrive, brimming with chinese tourists. This beach was once a jewel empty and prisistine. But that time is long gone. Jarereed takuathung seems to e the only one tasked with tempering tourists activities here. He is the head ranger of maya bay. But his task is not easy. There are some areas here that should be offlimits, to protect nature. But the chinese just go right in. I then tell them, hey, dont do that. but they cant understand me. Sometimes they just laugh at me, as if i had told a joke. Maya bay is part of Ko Phi Phi Leh. The islaland used to be consided th
Given point at one given time. They are cumulative so you cant see at one point at one time or the waste goes. The other thing you can see is whats happening under the surface as well. Its hard to get a good visual gas Industry Based on one wells that. With that i have to call time. We are going to go next door and my wonderful offer authors are going to be signing their books. Buy their books and have them sign the books and we will answer questions there. [applause] [inaudible conversations] is talk from the New York Public Library is an hour and 40 minutes. [applause] thanks very much. Its good to be a pity i spent a good chunk of my Research Time working at the New York Public Library in the huge beautiful room they have available to the public. Its a pleasure and honor to come here to talk about my book the frackers. Often when you are writing a book its a project and it takes a while. You are not even sure you can get it done let alone be able to come back to a nice room like thi
Antifracking or profracking you need to understand your individual impact on those debates. Every time you turn on your natural gas stove and every time you go and use a natural gas heater you are encouraging the use of hydraulic fracturing in our economy. So its important to understand individual responsibility. A lot of folks dont. Without let me turn it over to questions. Can you come over to the mic . Hi. I guess my question is what a lot of this be solved if the fracking industry was forced to follow the Clean Air Act i mean the clean water act . How much is it the problem of . My feeling is if its safe youve got to do it because we are all using energy but i always assumed there was more safety than your explaining here. If theyre not following the clean water act its pretty mu much theres no transparency. And it seems like we have to trust an industry that why should i trust someone . Thats my question. I can give a brief answer. It would become more expensive for the industry t
Had counties or local municipalities successfully challenge the industry. So while we dont have National Policy on this or limited National Policy, theres developing policy on a community level. Thats very important. Now, the story in new york started with this awareness with the big deal with the ifs sit farmers got sit farmers, the 110 million deal. And all this chain of events that went with that ended up with the moratorium in new york state. Meanwhile, pennsylvania has gone full ahead with it, and sitting right on the border youve really had a case study of two different states and the ramifications in these two different states with the development. Personally, and thats where all this comes home, right . I mean, we can talk all these technical things and policy things all along, but how does it affect people . And if you could switch to slide 13, please . I think you might have to skip over one or two. There we go, right there. Thank you. When i was working at the paper in 2008