In message , PSmith
writes

Thanks for putting me right.

On Usenet there's always someone who'll enjoy putting someone else right


Since this is a newsgroup for people sharing an interest in skiing, some of
Sue's comments do seem rather anti? I can certainly do without the concrete
blocks etc, but the recreational sport does need lifts and accommodation
etc.

That doesn't mean they aren't ugly.
Snowsports are often condemned as environmentally damaging (even by
people with no other interest in them) but I suspect our impact gets
exaggerated because the facilities are so unsightly.

I don't know what they could do about it.
Pistes and lift lines carved through forests are conspicuous, but they
make useful firebreaks. Maybe they could thin out the trees at the
edges to make them look a bit more natural, or maybe every tree's needed
to keep the chalet fires burning.
Without lifts the size of ocean liners the conspiracy to join the whole
Alpine range into one vast lift system would fail (whoops, forget I said
that, or we'll have to shoot you.)
The concrete apartment blocks can't be removed without yet more
environmental damage. Besides, what's unfashionable today may become
retro-chic tomorrow.

So why not halt all new development of resorts in the Alps - oh, silly
me, the threat of global warming's done that anyway. And if we get
cooling instead, the spreading glaciers'll soon grind the whole lot into
moraine, which should satisfy everyone.

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Sue ];(