Doomsday Tourists Visit Global Warming Hot Spots

They are flocking to see the Snows of Kilimanjaro while the peak still looks more or less how it did to Hemingway. They're traveling to Glaciers National Park, while its name still makes sense. They're visiting the Arctic because, well, the Arctic won't be the same in years to come

They are the Doomsday Tourists. They choose destinations not based on their beauty, exactly, or on the danger, as the name might imply. They choose destinations based on the last-chance appeal. These destinations just won't be the same after a few more years or decades of global warming, so the Doomsday Tourists want to see them now before they're gone.

And they're doing it more than ever, according to the Telegraph, which also points out the predictable unintended consequence: All those tourists are hastening the demise of some of these landmarks, as countless feet trample pristine wilderness and jet emissions fill the air with more greenhouse gases.

It will be a complicated story they tell to their children, who may well not have the same choice of destinations their parents did.

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