There's more than one way to look at that link you shared.
I see an establishment media which likes to think of itself in high terms, having a long article with pictures that look like it really is a travel piece, to sell tourism.
The headline is also misleading. One has to dig down into the body/
... of the text, way down, to find that 42% of the islands are decreasing, while 39% are going the other way.
That's alarming, and the headline should be alarming.
Instead, the headline is milquetoast.
It's trying to be a feel-good story about an existential crisis for many.