A technology to justify leisure with nature and humanity destruction as a side effect.
An industry that aims at record growth at a time of rapid climate change, water scarcity, land artificialization, and biodiversity collapse.
The basic human desire for immediate satisfaction has led us to exceed the limits of our planet. Wave pool technologies are profoundly altering local communities and the fragile equilibrium of nature, all to satisfy the immediate desires of a select few privileged individuals.
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“Even though many surfers consider themselves environmentally progressive, we find that they are incompletely aware of their own environmental impacts, thus limiting their behaviour as environmental.”
Hill and Abbott
(2009b, p. 160)