environmentalist now hate skiers...see article

[skizilla]

check out this article. They actually advocate that individual skiers give up down hill skiing. It also has many reccomendations that would work in europe but not hear in the US. I am fairly environmental myself but the people who wrote this or that it represents are out of hand.

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article343557.ece

 

[Marc]

Yawn....


*fart*




That reminds me, I want to go to Zermatt quite badly. Anyone want to pony up the cash to pay for me?


I'd be... ah, forever grateful and stuff?

 

[ctenidae]

"Within 50 years all ski resorts below 1,200m won't have a chance and will go out of business,"

Does this mean we better get all the skiing we can in now?

artificial snow causes long-term damage to the vegetation on the slopes on which it is made.

How, moreso than natural snow?

developing facilities as high up mountains as possible to escape the heat, and to include access to nearby glaciers

I like it.

All the suggestions are decent, except for one:
Consider another winter sport.

 

[ctenidae]

*fart*

Keep that up, and either Zermatt will melt or you'll be able to launch yourself over there.

 

[Marc]

Nah, I tried the second thing and it wouldn't work. I need to find a way to contain and concentrate the energy.

 

[ctenidae]

Wear tighty whiteys.

 

[Sky]

re: Yawn/fart...HEH! Reminds me of a cartoon short my kids watched when they were little...something from Nickleodeon called "Dog Brain". Cartoon lasted about a minute, maybe two. This dog is sleeping in front of a TV and starts to dream. He twitches a bit. Suddenly a "bubble" of his dream appears over his head. He's dreaming he's sleeping in front of the TV. The bubble disappears, he raises his leg and farts...and the credits roll. The music/soundtrack helped.

re: enviro news. I get too viseral when the activists launch this stuff. H'ya, right...find another sport.

 

[blacknblue]

Not much of what they said had to do with skiing itself - more about lodging construction and transportation to/from the resorts. They also conveniently sidestepped clarifying a number of their contentions, such as destroying alpine vegetation (umm... we ski on snow, not hike on the grass) and how chairlifts destroy the environment (b/c there is grass instead of trees?).
I consider myself an environmentalist, but I'm not quite sure how to make my ski experience any more green based on this article. Is global warming a significant threat? Probably yes. Is my downhill skiing exacerbating that? Probably no.
Also interesting that their suggestions for being a "greener skier" was basically about soliciting others to change their policies, which seems to verify that the problem (and solution) lay elsewhere.

 

[salida]

check this, its about global warming and how we may just be in a warm cycle of the earth's (global warming is still an issue just not the sole factor)

http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showtopic=82188&st=0