A scheme to encourage climbers to bring their waste down from Mount Everest is being scrapped - with Nepalese authorities telling the BBC it has been a failure.
Climbers had been required to pay a deposit of $4,000 (£2964), which they would only get back if they brought at least 8kg (18lbs) of waste back down with them.
It was hoped it would begin to tackle the rubbish problem on the world’s highest peak, which is estimated to be covered in some 50 tonnes of waste.
But after 11 years - and with the rubbish still piling up - the scheme is being shelved because it “failed to show a tangible result”.
Close the mountain. If you can’t take care of it, you don’t deserve to get to climb it.
Money. It’s all about money. Nobody will “close” the mountains.
the guides who make their living taking people up the mountain would be out of a job. the industry supports thousands of people, shutting it down would mean those families and their children would starve.
So it’s ok to destroy the environment just so a few more people can “earn” a living being servants of the ultra rich?
Glass houses, “friend.” As an English-speaking person posting on Lemmy, your lifestyle is almost certainly 10x worse for the environment than some Sherpa’s is. And you probably serve the ultra rich too, one way or another.
So what you’re saying is we should dispose of the wealthy and spread their assets and wealth out and lift up the lives of the Sherpas and other less fortunate individuals?
I agree. Fuck the oligarchs and the multimillionaires who zealously support them.
No, but it would be even worse to suddenly cut off the primary income for people relying on it to survive.
How much do you earn compared to the average rural Nepali, and do you ever do anything bad for the climate?
This isn’t even a climate change issue, it’s just garbage that can be picked back up, and which is only ever seen by other climbers.
is it OK to let little kids starve when you can feed them and clean up the environment at the same time? and what’s with this quotation marks around the word earn? that’s some privileged bullshit from somebody who has clearly never been hungry or homeless.