Lonely Planet Magazine India

TRAVEL 2020 RESOLUTIONS

2020, the year that was always “the future”, is here. The year we thought there would be flying cars. Instead, we have been given a deadline of 10 years to undo the destruction of our planet and get our act together. The luxury of making decisions without thinking of the consequences it has on our world's climate has been revoked. Travelling is not a pipe dream anymore. With 1.4 billion people on the move every year, the footprints we are leaving behind are made of carbon and no longer a romantic memory in the sand.

Does this mean I will stop travelling? I am faced with a morally perplexing decision. So, in a world that travels for Instagram, my resolution in 2020 is to travel for myself. I’ve decided that I am not going to be that person whose bio reads “45+ countries, 100 cities and counting”.

If “the mountains are calling”, I

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