With COVID-19 all but receding from the headlines, most remaining discussion of the pandemic focuses on its economic fallout. Inflation is battering countries from Egypt to Turkey, in part a result of shortages created by COVID. At the same time, many fewer analysts have discussed the implications of the post-COVID era for the natural environment. As travel bans vanish and tourists return to the Middle East and North Africa in droves, they will bring a spike in greenhouse gas emissions and all the other forms of pollution that accompany overseas travel. “According to the Global Carbon Project,…