Eco-Travel...
Jul 16, 2008
What Is Killing Camping?
We have always blamed the decline in camping and interest in National parks on electronics, quoting the fifth-grader: “I like to play indoors better ’cause that’s where all the electrical outlets are.” The Economists disagrees, and suggests that we should "blame conservationists, not video games." And parents. "Americans are more fearful for their children and have become unwilling to leave them in the company of strange men, green-hatted or otherwise." And competition. "Attendance at national parks was not the only thing that peaked between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. In 1991 America’s homicide rate reached 9.8 per 100,000 people. Many cities...
