Re:Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It
by matsemann on Thursday January 16, 2020 @07:55AM
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Don't be flippant. As someone growing up in the mountains, the ski resort is the one thing keeping the wheels turning. Loosing it will actually quite literally mean forcing us out of our homes.
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Re:Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It
by coldtea on Thursday January 16, 2020 @05:44PM
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>As someone growing up in the mountains, the ski resort is the one thing keeping the wheels turning. Loosing it will actually quite literally mean forcing us out of our homes.
Of course there would be negative consequences for mountain villages and such. But ski tourist industry decline is not the biggest tragedy. These people are indeed forced to leave their Alps village but they can still go get some job in the city in a first world country. That's versus millions of third world immigrants or dying kids in Africa/Asia due to droughts/climate change developments for example...