Can’t ski on snowless mountains
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Posted on November 27, 2006
Filed Under Global warming/Climate change, Deep ecology, Greenhouse gas emissions, Ecological hope, Consumer culture, Fossil fuel dependency, Environmental disasters, Earth spirituality
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I wasn’t going to post again today until I saw this story in the NY Times sports section. Had to share it. It’s about how the World Cup in skiing is having trouble finding mountains with snow on them — from Aspen to France to Switzerland. International competition is in jeopardy.
It just emphasizes the point many scientists are trying to urge upon us these days. Climate change and other impacts due to global warming are not future events; they are right now and right here. So just imagine what this world will be like by the time today’s children reach middle age. What incalculable losses, what grief about this Earth, will we all be dealing with in the years ahead?
And still this culture resists meaningful change.
People still tell me that folks won’t change until it begins to affect them. Well, it’s affecting them, more and more and in greater extremes.
So what else will it take? Please, give me another idea for how to reach this culture.
[I will be traveling tomorrow so may miss a day. Stay tuned.]
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