People who love the outdoors — including JeremyJones and ProtectWinters — are joining together from both sides of the aisle to protect their playgrounds.
— issues that are the result of climate change or political policy, or both.
. However, that posture has swung in the opposite direction over the past decade, with many party leaders favoring industry or denying that climate change is a problem or even exists.Perhaps the pendulum is beginning to swing back, though. Jones pointed out that Utah Rep. John Curtis was among the first conservative members of Congress to acknowledge climate change and advocate for action, a step he first took in 2019.
To accelerate that shift, the legendary mountaineer made Salt Lake City one of his four stops last month on a tour to show his latest film, “Purple Mountains” — which has more shots of him trying to bridge the gap with climate deniers than of him sliding through narrow chutes on his snowboard. After the film, he pleaded with the approximately 60 people attending the event at the University of Utah to vote, and to do so with the environment in mind.
“I feel like those missions accomplish only so much,” Babajanian said. “But when you add something that’s very real, that affects our daily life and something you do for fun to it, that makes it a little bit more personal. It hits home a little bit.”��The mountains are so stunning, and I feel like no other place in the world has such great access,” she said. “And I see a lot of people taking that for granted and it just upsets me. That’s kind of why I got involved.
“In that moment, we saw that there is a lot of interest, especially in students,” Wiese, 23, said. “And there isn’t really an outlet for them to kind of express their concern, specifically about the gondola, but I think about natural space in general.” “I think this issue is unique because it does cross political lines,” she said. “While I don’t think saving a beautiful canyon, watershed, and copious amounts of money should be political at all, that is not the reality of the situation, unfortunately.”
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