Unintentionally funny stuff from warmist ski executive Auden Schendler: With huge June snowpack in Aspen, he's now thinking that CO2 may cause more snow, but it'll also cause a world "stripped even of schools and hospitals"

Guest Commentary: The first casualty of climate change - The Denver Post

We were open for skiing this past weekend in Aspen, the huge snowpack providing an opportunity for true fanatics to shorten the gap between spring and winter.

As an executive at a ski resort concerned about climate change, this is bittersweet to me. At the same time that skiers in T-shirts ecstatically carve slush turns, downstream communities like Basalt and Carbondale are bracing for record flooding, something most climatologists have long predicted as a result of warming.

As a skier, what worries me most about climate change isn't the loss of snow — indeed, it's possible that a warmer, wetter atmosphere will produce bigger winter storms.
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The science tells us that one of the consequences of climate disruption is a world like Cormac McCarthy described in his novel "The Road," a pure survival society, stripped of discretionary pursuits, stripped even of schools and hospitals. The fear is that emergent challenges — floods, droughts, storms, threats to food and water supply, damage to infrastructure — will trump all else.

But flourishing societies have always emphasized "superfluous" aspects, like arts, culture and sports, which represent the leading edge of human thought and are catalysts for creative change in all arenas.
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In a world beset by problems like debt and poverty, war and disease, the ski industry can be criticized as unnecessary and wasteful. And skiing seems a likely candidate for the family budget's chopping block when climate constraints bear down on economies and individuals, as droughts, fires and floods tend to do.