Loving Bali to death: The tourism trap


Skift Take

Bali is now part of cultural zeitgeist, where tourists go to find themselves. But it is clearly clashing with local lifestyle and resources, and if nothing's done to make this rapid development sutainable, may soon pass its title to other new-Balis along the way.

British academic Dr Stroma Cole says 260 of Bali's 400 rivers have run dry and Bali's biggest natural reserve of water, Lake Buyan, is in deep trouble from shrinkage, sediment and the inflow of agricu