by Tjeerd Royaards

Cartoon showing a beach littered with plastic waste and a dried-up seabed covered in dead fish and trash. A display on a pole shows a current temperature of 49 degrees Celsius. Poor people are sitting on the beach staring at the dried up sea. Part of the beach is cleaned up and cordoned off, and rich people are on a red carpet standing in line to enter this part. A sign at the entrance reads 'Escape Reality - Luxury Resort' Inside, people are sipping cocktails and lounging on beach beds, while a giant display shows a beach sunset. A bank of airconditioning units blows cool air over the beach beds.

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[–] 45 points 2 months ago

Thanks. I hate it

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  • [–] 38 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    This escape from reality is pretty much what (mass,commercial) tourism is anyhow.

    Though I don't know how they distract people from global warming.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I remember reading a think piece defending tourist traps, saying that it's better that tourists concentrate there than spread out in search of more "authentic" places.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    That's a partial fallacy inasmuch as people who search out more authentic places tend to do a different kind of tourism, although that can still be annoying, even destructive, for the locals.

    OTOH there's something to it, just like gentrification of urban areas. It's a slow process, and when it's complete some people seek out more "authentic" places again.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Not sure what makes it a political cartoon. Looks like parts of Louisiana and Texas. 🤔

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, this place exists not far from here. They've built a crappy outdoor pool and separated it from the motorway by a screen with a beach and palm trees printed on it. Instead of protecting and maintaining the river beaches full of ash and beautiful hillsides of oak that also exist here. Humans are strange.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    All it needs is workers being whipped while cleaning up trash and throwing it over the wall into a bonfire.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    At 50°C, I don't care how many autonomous killer drones they have in there, I'm rushing inside and ruining the rich fucks' day by getting shot in front of them

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Can't help but think of Christmas, Mickey's caravan adventure.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I think it's still missing when we will be charged for air 🥰 we will be complete then

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    The poor folks sweating would be a nice addition to this

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