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No, Instagram Is Not Ruining Chernobyl
A (mostly mythical) surge in visitors to the nuclear disaster site raises a question: Can mass tourism spoil a place that’s already famous for being uninhabitable?
Tourism has been accused of ruining many things: Amsterdam, Venice, Iceland, Mount Everest—even nature in its entirety. A viral tweet that emerged this week, however, implicated ill-behaved visitors in spoiling a place that most of us would consider pretty effectively spoiled already.
Tourism, it seems, could now be ruining…Chernobyl.