Nope. Having traveled a bunch myself and talked to many other people who have traveled, traveling to a place can easily be one of the worst ways to actually learn about how the people live. Being a tourist in a place teaches you nothing about the voting process there, the community councils, the property tax codes, etc.
Essentially, traveling to another place without living there for many months only gives you an understanding of the most superficial aspects of life.
> we would be more likely to get the kind of international cooperation we need to tackle climate change systemically
This doesn’t even make sense. People who live in the same cities struggle to cooperate on even super local problems like housing. Ted from Kansas City flying to Europe to eat a steak in Florence is not going to help anything.
Essentially, traveling to another place without living there for many months only gives you an understanding of the most superficial aspects of life.
> we would be more likely to get the kind of international cooperation we need to tackle climate change systemically
This doesn’t even make sense. People who live in the same cities struggle to cooperate on even super local problems like housing. Ted from Kansas City flying to Europe to eat a steak in Florence is not going to help anything.