Voters should make climate justice a defining issue in the 2024 presidential election
We can, at times, see with our own eyes what others would deny.
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Our glaciers are shrinking fast, change visible within the lives of Baby Boomers. So, what, you say? Well, we depend on them for summer river flow which provides electric power, sustains irrigation, supports recreation and provides habitat for salmon.
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When I was a kid, both the Coleman and Roosevelt Glaciers on Mount Baker were advancing. A University of Washington engineering professor, Dr. Art Harrison, was measuring the advance. Tongues of the Roosevelt Glacier were curling around a cliff face. Hauling markers over stream outlets and up to remote Bastille Ridge was a major exertion.
Both glaciers are now retreating, the Roosevelt having pulled way back from the cliff face. The Easton Glacier, on the south side of Mount Baker, has pulled back even further, leaving a long ice-sculpted moraine in its wake.
https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2024/08/voters-should-make-climate-justice-a-defining-issue-in-the-2024-presidential-election.html