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This model may be applied to different destinations at a given moment in time, or perhaps more importantly, to the evolution of an individual destination over time. For example, the explorer or adventurer traveller discovers a Pacific island paradise and passes the word around; the travel industry becomes interested in this potential new market, and makes it available to the wealthy, mobile elite. Then, by the process of successive class intervention, and by improved accessibility, increasingly mass arrivals are organized.
Over human affairs, this large demand is uncontroversial, because it is taken for granted that human beings ought to get a much better life than most of them do, so that it is always appropriate to aim at a high and distant ideal, beyond what one expects to achieve immediately. But about other creatures, not everybody finds this obvious. There are those who say that we ought not really to be concerned about anything except human beings. And of late an attack has also been developed from the other side, from those who say that concern for animals is too narrow rather than too wide, because what we ought to be concerned about is the whole biosphere.
No one who attends at all seriously to what goes on in the world can any longer treat human technology as omnipotent, though some economists still make a brave attempt to live in the past about this. And on the psychological side, the crippling narrowness of regarding a human being as essentially just an intellect has become terribly plain. These large changes can only be glanced at hastily here, but perhaps what follows for our present topic is clear. Concern for the suffering of animals, which used to be treated in our society as an outlying, rather eccentric interest, disconnected from the official morality of the tribe, now appears against a much wider background where it does not look eccentric at all.
