You could feel an urgency about climate change in the room; Colorado is really the canary in the coal mine, already seeing more statistically unusual weather than the rest of the country. Massive wildfires consumed the forests of the Front Range around Fort Collins in 2012, and five-day floods killed eight people and destroyed 2,000 homes last September. Driving through these mountains, it is eerie: You see a landscape of orange-brown-black trees. Most of the presenters connected their passion directly to the destruction they had already seen — the disappearance of a salmon species, or fracking wastewater ponds in a place of great beauty. Many talked about their homes and several teared up.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 01:30:00 +0000
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