Once a month or so I head for the library to catch up on magazines.
Of course I had seen many references on-line to the Sept. 2007 Backpacker Global Warming Issue.
I like Backpacker — but am suspicious of any magazine with a GREEN issue. Are they simply pumping sales with the G word?
In this case, no. This issue is excellent. And scary. The “Future of Wilderness†projection will affect all hikers.
Climate change, Parks at risk, desertification, species extinction, forests dying, degraded water supply. It is depressing.
Some solutions are suggested. But buying a hemp pack somehow feels too little, too late.
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In my opion Global Warming is disproportionate. THat’s a circuit of nature. In some years there will be a Global Cold. That’s Nature