Ultimately, the message of the Toxic Tourism book was for these "toxic tours" to do more than just raise awareness of a pressing and oftentimes harmful truth about a specific environment. Yes, raising awareness is the first step in any issue that is to be addressed, but what good is raising awareness when nothing is done after the awareness is raised? This reminds me of the comment that Nate made about his Toxic Tour experience that he had last year. They went to the site, they learned of the damage that had been done, but after that, they simply left with that knowledge, but did nothing to actually help the cause, which makes you ask yourself why you even went there in the first place. This truly reminds me of our final capstone projects. For me, I feel as if raising awareness about pregnancy discrimination is useful, yet very easy. It does not take much to throw together a few eye-popping statistics to raise that awareness. (Which is important) But I think the goal is to not only raise awareness, but inspire change. Now, that is not going to be so easy with both a male population that physically cannot get pregnant and young college students who hopefully will not be having children any time soon, but I guess what I am trying to say is I want people to watch my video, and not necessarily inspire change, but I want them to be moved and in some way effected by it, which is, in essence, what a good toxic tour should do. The video I have shown on this post does exactly what a serious problem, like a drought, should not do. The person speaking is simply throwing out a bunch of alarming statistics, but not once does he offer a solution. What good is that?
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