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).
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.
But at the end of this arid late-summer afternoon, Schendler is feeling anything but triumphant. He pulls a company sedan to the side of a dirt road and turns off the motor. “Who are we kidding?” he says, finally. Despite all his exertions, the resort’s greenhouse-gas emissions continue to creep up year after year. More vacationers mean larger lodgings burning more power. Warmer winters require tons of additional artificial snow, another energy drain. “I’ve succeeded in doing a lot of sexy projects yet utterly failed in what I set out to do,” Schendler says. “How do you really green your company? It’s almost f—— impossible.
It’s not often I get angry and despairing. I try and remain optimistic (try). But after reading this article I got angry(er).
Kinda makes me being worried about being able to go snowboarding a little redundant at that point. When people are directly affected and lose their livelihoods and land, skiing and snowboarding kind of seems unimportant all of a sudden.
The Australian BOM analyses the recent SE Aust heatwave
One of the interesting things about the move to sustainability in life and industry has been the question of “green” jobs, and whether the move/shift will cost jobs. Ecogeek has a great article on this here.
This Earth and inhabitants need saving. I’m going to do my best to help save it, and if you’re not with me, get the f#ck out my way, or I will bulldoze you away. This is not the time for niceties, or diplomacy.
I will not remit. I will not cease. I will hunt down those who seek to deny, delay, obfuscate, the saving of the Planet I love, and I will tear you apart.
I will die on my feet rather than live on my knees. My conscience and all the beings yet to walk this Earth and behold its beauty demand this of me, of us.
Tim
Why the Siberian permafrost melt is bad news for you
Thanks for checking back, we really appreciate it.Not scared? Think the cold weather means “dude global warming is a hoax dude”.
Dead wrong. Key word there is dead.
This is not a test on a test planet. Below are 4 links detailing why we’re in deep pooh, basically.
Most climate models have been underestimating the rate of [...]
