Unpredictable. Unfocused. Just like life.

The United Nations is very concerned about climate change, especially how it affects tourism:

“The entire tourism product will be affected,” said Geoffrey Lipman, assistant secretary general of the United Nations World Tourism Organization, “Every destination has a climate-related component.”

Speaking by telephone from the meeting, Mr. Lipman said that if the climate was going to change, “which we know it will, we’d all better adapt.”

A changing climate is the only certainty, he said. What kind of change and how it will affect a nation’s tourism industry will depend on where you are and what you offer. Indeed, climate change in some places may actually provide opportunities.

I'm not sure which I find more amazing; that someone from the United Nations is actually saying that we should adapt to climate change rather than create some new tax or bureaucracy, or that the United Nations actually has a World Tourism Organization.

Perhaps the funniest line though is this one:

At the end of the Davos conference, the World Tourism Organization advised travelers to take the climate into account and “where possible to reduce their carbon footprint.”

This from the organization that holds conferences attended by thousands in places like Davos. Conservation should really start at home, shouldn't it?