{"id":2446203,"date":"2019-07-10T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/making-money-at-the-altar-of-sacrifice\/"},"modified":"2019-07-11T08:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:17:12","slug":"making-money-at-the-altar-of-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/making-money-at-the-altar-of-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"Making money at the altar of sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Austen Schendler writes of the Aspen Skiing Co.\u2019s support of the proposed 5-megawatt solar energy project, speaking of sacrifice, beauty and hope, and the foundation of a noble future (<a id=\"N0x102f550N0xfdcb40:N0x102f550N0xff43d0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/guest-commentary\/guest-commentary-new-solar-farm-near-aspen-should-be-seen-as-solution-not-eyesore\/\">\u201cNew solar farm near Aspen should be seen as solution, not eyesore,\u201d<\/a> guest commentary, July 8, aspentimes.com). If the Skico truly wanted to combat climate change to the fullest extent possible, they would not be in constant expansion mode, always seeking to attract more people and more dollars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">They are not alone in this, as the city of Aspen, Pitkin County, the state of Colorado, and pretty much every other town, county or state in the country counts economic growth as a primary goal. Economic growth means more people consuming more things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I\u2019m not against this solar energy project, because I know that nothing anyone can say or do is likely to change that priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I work in a construction-related field, so I\u2019m part of the problem too. This is the life we have chosen. Let\u2019s just be clear about why we are being asked to sacrifice the beauty of our valley (as I will never find a solar panel field as beautiful as a field of elk). It\u2019s not about a noble future, it\u2019s just all about the money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Jennifer Long<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Snowmass<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/making-money-at-the-altar-of-sacrifice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austen Schendler writes of the Aspen Skiing Co.\u2019s support of the proposed 5-megawatt solar energy project, speaking of sacrifice, beauty and hope, and the foundation of a noble future (\u201cNew solar farm near Aspen should be seen as solution, not eyesore,\u201d guest commentary, July 8, aspentimes.com). If the Skico truly wanted to combat climate change [&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-2446203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 04:17:14","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\/2446203","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=2446203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446226,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446203\/revisions\/2446226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}