One of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard from a skier or boarder (or anyone in ski resort management) is: “I/we don’t care about global warming or less snow, we can use snow guns”.
Well, no, not really. Warmer temps, and/or less precipitation, equals either more rain, or less snow and rain, so either way, snow guns are pretty useless.
The world is melting and getting warmer, big Oil is making BILLIONS but wants to keep sh!tting on our planet and snowboarders are worried about perfume?!
Warning: this post might piss off parts of the Australian snow industry (if so, too bad).
I recently was discussing climate change with an Australian ski industry executive, who was confident of the season ahead due to Lake Eyre filling up (let’s leave aside the fact that Eyre may fill more often due to increasing tropical/subtropical storm activity in QLD and NSW).
Inaction, and inertia, are terribly good at rendering us helpless. It’s easy to feel small, to feel indifferent, to feel like you can’t make a difference. Thing is though, you can (this is part of the reason I spend 2 hours a day reading constantly, and then blogging).
Unfortunately, as conservatives like to point out when advocating doing nothing, we’re at best 2% of the world’s emissions.
Think about that for a moment. Australia faces perhaps total disaster in the next 100 years, but we have no control over it. The rest of the world does. Americans. Europeans. Chinese. Indians. Russians. Our fate is in their hands
Yes. We believe that climate change (with resultant warming) is occuring.
Yes, the planet has warmed and cooled of it’s own accord.
But never this fast.
Why are we still debating this I wonder? Because the debate is getting in the way of action.
Yes.
We have new tshirts (a lot, actually), and I dig them all (for once, everything came out perfectly).
Check out these Sustainable Snowboarding ones – unisex cut for now, but I think they will rock. Heresy logo is on the back rear armpit/back area.
Anti global warming or climate change proponents (some call them crackpots…I suppose some like Andrew Bolt are) really make it easy these days. I totally concede that skepticism in science is needed, but:
1. We only have one Earth – the risks in listening to denialists are way, WAY too high
2. There is overwhelming evidence to refute denialist claims.
I thought I’d do a post on renewable energy today, as part of us starting to add a “solutions” (hope) element to our posts. So today I’m concentrating predominantly on solar and wind because we can deploy these technologies now.
I like to think snowboarders are in general pretty soulful beings; after all, we enjoy the outdoors and most of us can appreciate the beauty in the outdoors; for instance as we stand at the top of a snowy peak.
I also like to think generally we care about animals. I know I do – to the point I don’t eat them (but that’s a different matter). All of which makes the following information really, really, well, just saddening.
