{"id":2453116,"date":"2020-01-10T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-skiing-co-doing-its-part-to-address-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2020-01-13T08:58:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T15:58:43","slug":"aspen-skiing-co-doing-its-part-to-address-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-skiing-co-doing-its-part-to-address-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Skiing Co. doing its part to address climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I\u2019m afraid Paul Andersen\u2019s recent column (<a id=\"N0x2327ed0N0x22a3800:N0x2327ed0N0x22b1f60\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/paul-andersen-pow-is-not-enough-to-save-aspen-winters\/\">\u201cPOW not enough to save Aspen winters,\u201d<\/a> Jan. 6, aspentimes.com) fundamentally misses the point on climate action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He concludes that \u201cAspen is like an obese person sipping SlimFast while noshing a cheeseburger.\u201d Actually, Aspen Skiing Co.\u2014 the real target of Paul\u2019s piece \u2014 is more like an obese person lobbying for a tax on cheeseburgers. Big difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Look, we\u2019re all to blame for climate change. No purpose is served by pointing fingers and calling each other hypocrites. That way lies smugness and inaction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Yes, air travel and the X Games are part of Skico\u2019s (and Aspen\u2019s) business model, and they produce unacceptable emissions. The most efficient solution is to put a price on those emissions via congressional legislation. (Google the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, HR 763, which has been introduced in the House.) This approach corrects a flaw in the economic system, rather than relying on individuals to act against their economic interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I applaud Skico for funding systemic action to address climate change, despite the risk to its business model. It\u2019s probably the most strategic thing it can do to save both the climate and its business. May we all be that strategic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Dave Reed<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/aspen-skiing-co-doing-its-part-to-address-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m afraid Paul Andersen\u2019s recent column (\u201cPOW not enough to save Aspen winters,\u201d Jan. 6, aspentimes.com) fundamentally misses the point on climate action. He concludes that \u201cAspen is like an obese person sipping SlimFast while noshing a cheeseburger.\u201d Actually, Aspen Skiing Co.\u2014 the real target of Paul\u2019s piece \u2014 is more like an obese person [&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":["post-2453116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 21:28:28","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\/2453116","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=2453116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453167,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453116\/revisions\/2453167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}