ABSTRACT
The concluding chapter attempts to assess the benefits and pitfalls of cinematic tourist development in a hyperglobalised world plagued by human-made environmental degradation, climate change and unprecedented collective identity transformations. These situations, which are constitutive of the ways social science scholars discuss the dawn of the Anthropocene, expose the limitations of human nature when it comes to turning the principle of hope for a better future into sustainable action. The chapter highlights that, in addition to any generic capitalist imperatives, conflicts between business and local, national and global activist networks are based on the urge to destroy and replace the opponent’s ‘image’ or perspective. This propensity to ‘iconoclasm’ reduces the possibility of finding common ground so as to press ahead with changes that will secure a trouble-free future for humanity and its natural home, earth. Only the development of the skill to attune to other voices by all sides, and the creation of new scientific laboratories inclusive of both professional and native knowledge, can avert dark futures.
