Bolivia is at least as safe as the USofA. Just stay out of Chapare and keep an eye on your money and passport when traveling with bus (and of course in crowded places, but this is true for near the whole planet).
I think that regardless of your political leaning, he is an interesting piece of history.
In 2019 there were protests after alleged election fraud, Evo morales the president fled out of the country
In La Paz was a hotspot for tourists abduction in the early 2000s, there is also a known market of stolen goods
I had a visit from Interpol in a hostel in Sucre couple of years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochabamba_Water_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Bolivian_protests
Take a selfie next to a statue, eat at a restaurant, buy some souvenir made in China... now you can check a country in your country list and say "I have been to n+1 countries". What was the cost? burning a massive amount of plane fuel to get you there that is equivalent to you burning your trash for a full year, something that in a planet governed by a rational species would be illegal to do.
The article talks about something much more profound. Long distance tourism is at our current technological level a planet-killing industry and should be outlawed.