Recent content by goretex

Be responsible humans for one second, try reading something worthwhile. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8357537.stm Greenland ice loss 'accelerating' By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website The Ilulissat glacier has retreated by approximately 15km over the...

It's with a fucking 'i', not an 'e'. Think of the word ridicule, to insult or belittle. Thank you.

http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2041 Opinion Too Many People, Too Much Consumption Four decades after his controversial book, The Population Bomb, scientist Paul Ehrlich still believes that overpopulation — now along with overconsumption — is the central environmental crisis...

That's fair, hating's easier than thinking.

Another quandary. I could have sworn that Ninthward was just about the peak of the newschool's ski industry bubble, but I guess I was irrationally un-exuberant and now there are real additions taking the floor. See, e.g.: Moment; and as markers of success Armada and Joystick. But I would like to...

If it is, in fact, an interesting thread, let's hear some banter.

Sometimes that's the point of a critique. Point out the extremes and come back to the center. And Yippie = Yuppie + Hippie... faux hippies with money.

I'm going to have to go ahead and... disagree with you there. Rockstars. The so-called tragically hip? Disregard for one's own wellbeing is often given plenty of attention.

skiers are masochists, of course.

Self destruction has always been cool. Kurt Cobain, infinitely cool. Chris Farley, cool. O.D.B., absolutely, undeniably cool. Snowboarding is a veritable factory of cool, not to mention product tie-ins. Whatever your take on the legitimacy of that sport as a something more than another market...

I'm sorry, there is no disagreeing. You may enjoy snowmobiles and sled-accessed backcountry skiing, but that doesn't make me wrong. Let's try some points, I'll work a few angles with a simple yes/no. Do recreational snowmobilers help the ski industry or ski resort economies? No, not...

Essentially any winter activity involves some resource output, short of cross-country skiing out of your back door. Sleds may be more efficient than many other vehicles, but generally 1 sled benefits 1 person. A skier may have to drive to their hill, but sledding generally requires that as well...

Look at it from a soceo-economic standpoint. The social costs greatly outweigh the benefits. The costs lie in the danger of the activity and the severe environmental impacts while the only benefit that does not further the detriments is the enjoyment a small number of people reap. Sled-accessed...