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Climate change threatens snow cover at ski destinations worldwide | The chilling prediction points to falling snow cover in mountainous ski regions, including the Appalachian Mountains and the Rockies (wapo.st)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Most regular skiers are generally pretty climate conscious. Like other outdoorsy sports.

[–] BallsandBayonets 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

However the people getting rich off the skiers are not, and they're the ones whose bank accounts stand to be impacted by a lack of snow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

They're even more aware, because, as you said, it's impacting their bank accounts. For example, Aspen has been quite public about climate change for a while https://aspen.gov/518/Climate-Action

I'm not sure what you're getting at. The ski industry isn't powerful enough to just fix climate change whenever it wants to. There are much more powerful forces at work.