Comments on: Saving Snow https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/02/23/saving-snow/ Tue, 27 Feb 2018 20:47:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: curtis goodnight https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/02/23/saving-snow/#comment-570018 Tue, 27 Feb 2018 20:47:38 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29110#comment-570018 yeah- I get it. But then many destination style recreational pursuits are going to be up there on their carbon footprint as well – fly in to your cruise ship? Drive a thousand miles to climb Yosemite? to run whitewater? Whale watch? Music festival?

The wealthy [which in relationship to the rest of the world includes ‘middle class’ America] use a far disproportionate share of the world’s resources and add disproportionately to global warming. That is an indictment of a consumptive based culture- I am guessing the ski industry is not an outsized contributor to that.

FWIW- Aspen ski Co was one of the first to sound a corporate alarm re climate warming many years ago- they have the snow level records for many years and it is obvious they are in a niche with no real long term future . And the town of Aspen does encourage bus ridership – I used it to hit the slopes maybe 25% of the time I lived there.

]]> By: RickR https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/02/23/saving-snow/#comment-569997 Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:18:05 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29110#comment-569997 On an only vaguely related note:

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/mark-jacobson-drops-lawsuit-against-critics-of-his-100-renewables#gs.mbPBQRk

]]> By: Roger Lambert https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/02/23/saving-snow/#comment-569819 Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:46:19 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29110#comment-569819 In reply to Roger Lambert.

How about hyperbole? Does that use a huge amount of carbon? Just wondering, as I seem to have lost my bearings.

]]> By: Roger Lambert https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/02/23/saving-snow/#comment-569818 Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:41:58 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29110#comment-569818 Ski areas are “one of the biggest carbon polluters ” because some people use jets to get to Aspen? Seriously?

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