Friday, April 06, 2012

Warmist Mike Lanza hates your grandchildren: Convinced that CO2 emissions are going to destroy our national parks, he embarks on an intensely selfish program of completely unnecessary fossil-fueled travel

Hot on the trail: Exploring parks threatened by climate change | Grist

When writer and outdoorsman Mike Lanza realized climate change was staking a full-scale assault on our most beloved national parks, he didn’t just lament about how his kids wouldn’t get to experience them the way he did. Instead, he saddled up his entire family — wife Penny, son Nate, 10, and daughter Alex, 7 — with packs, kayaks, and climbing gear and embarked on a year-long mission to visit them all. His new book Before They’re Gone: A Family’s Year-Long Quest to explore America’s Most Endangered National Parks chronicles the adventure....(some trips involved flights and lodging)

...Q. Getting to all these places obviously required a lot of carbon. Did that ever trouble you?

A. Yes. I’m kind of a nut about energy consumption...We’re planning a family climbing trip to the City of Rocks in June, a nine-day hut trek in Norway in July, and a four-day backpacking trip in the Wind River Range in August.

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