{"id":2444055,"date":"2019-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=305664"},"modified":"2019-05-11T10:27:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T16:27:33","slug":"canary-or-pika-we-need-to-be-more-focused-on-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/canary-or-pika-we-need-to-be-more-focused-on-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Canary or Pika: We need to be more focused on environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Rookie Aspen Ski School instructors asked for \u201cpost-apocalyptic\u201d costumes at their annual spring party. Some had no idea what that meant. Answer: think of the Mad Max movies. The extraordinary 1A radio show heard on KAJX covered the recent report on the extinction of species. The host asked his expert guests whether the human race also was doomed. The professor said the numbers say doomed, but we ought to be able to change that. Good luck with that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">To wit: A <a id=\"N0x282e840N0x27684a0:N0x282e840N0x2897930\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/spare-entrance-to-aspen-the-solar-blight\/\">lady writes to the paper<\/a> that a proposed solar array should not be allowed to further degrade the \u201calready unattractive Entrance to Aspen.\u201d I\u2019ve noticed this same attitude in Carbondale where a subdivision of upscale homes discourages solar collectors on roofs because they are considered \u201cugly.\u201d If we are to remove ourselves from the doomed species list we will need to completely flip this point of view. Renewable energy sources like solar collectors and windmills should be considered a \u201cbadge of honor.\u201d Whole communities are being built in Europe where all the roofs are completely covered with collectors. What these people find \u201cattractive\u201d is stopping the use of fossil fuels now. What I find most \u201cunattractive\u201d to the Entrance to Aspen are the rows of private jets that burn huge amounts of carbon fuels. Aspen has the \u201cCanary Initiative\u201d which uses the coal mine poison gas metaphor to inspire good environmental practice. Put that canary out at the airport and see how long it lasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I lobbied the environmental department to consider using the Pika as the climate warning mascot. The ever-so-cute little critters are dying off in this valley due to the increasing temperatures. They can only survive in a very narrow temperature band. Poignant and relevant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Patrick Hunter<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/canary-or-pika-we-need-to-be-more-focused-on-environment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie Aspen Ski School instructors asked for \u201cpost-apocalyptic\u201d costumes at their annual spring party. Some had no idea what that meant. Answer: think of the Mad Max movies. The extraordinary 1A radio show heard on KAJX covered the recent report on the extinction of species. The host asked his expert guests whether the human race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 02:43:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}