Comments on: SkiCo's Supreme Court Brief Paints Disturbing Picture Of Skiing's Future

by: Edward Troy

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:09:45 +0000

We live in a society of profligate waste. CO2 has absorbtion spectra in the infrared. Maybe there is a connection, maybe not. Having faith in those who profit from the waste and say there is no global warming, maybe a good idea, maybe not. Those who say, there is no global warming, may understand the science better than the scientists, who specialise in those relevant disciplines, then again, maybe not. Maybe jumping off a cliff into rocks is good for us, maybe not. So why don't we roll the dice and jump, you can't prove it isn't good, until you land, ....right? I can hear the same parroted answers from Bush. Somehow that fine feathered friend possesing the most wondrous birdbrain in the oval office leaves me slightly sceptical, even if he is the greatest president between numbers 42 and 44.

by: alpha6

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:32:23 +0000

True, but then so would the whole world without development. I just think it’s hypocritical of them to be doing one thing and talking another. Pretty much like what’s going on in Aspen with the Cracked up Canary Initiative, meanwhile people turn up the temp in the heated driveways cause the snow doesn’t melt fast enough.

I personally don’t believe that we, as humans, are affecting the climate in any significant way. Climate change has been happening for centuries without human intervention, all this is nothing new when viewed in the tens of thousands of years of the earth’s existence. Still, I don’t like to waste our resources…but the earth will be here long after we are gone.

by: Michael Conniff

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:55:36 +0000

I'm going to try to post Auden's answers about sustainability at Snowmass if I can because I think he gave a pretty good answer: his idea is that Snowmass right no has no center and no economic base without skiing, and that Base Village will bring that to the community.

The other thing to consider is what's the option? Without skiing, Snowmass is a ghost town.

by: alpha6

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:55:12 +0000

More of the “snow if melting” crowd. I wonder how much emissions are being belched from those tens of hundreds of trucks that are being utilized with the building of base village has contributed to helping out our little heating problem? Don’t see anyone calling for a curb in private planes flying into the valley…how much crap do they spit all over the slopes?

The nerve of these guys crying about the melting snow when they are some of the biggest contributors to the problem. Until I see them do something more then kill more trees printing out things telling us how environmentally conscious they are, then I will start to take what they say about more seriously. Until then, you can find me on the slopes skiing…there may be an inch or two of snow less, but it will still be good.

by: Jeff

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:26:06 +0000

Listening to Auden this morning. He conveniently forgets what Snowmass was like BEFORE it was called Snowmass -- before it was built. As an evironmentalist Auden might think we should dismantle Glen Canyon dam. By the same token, perhaps we should dismantle Snowmass ski resort and take it back to Aspen forest, elk and a few cows -- the way it used to be?

As for mining being worse then industrial tourism, sure, there were fewer trees, but Aspen is now a polluted town choked by noise and automobiles -- a town that has a deliberate traffic jam twice a day to discourage people from driving to/from the jobs that sustain the town. Saying that's better than mining is a specious value judgement.