Hi I'm David Goodman, I'm a journalist and the author of among other books for back-country skiing, historical guidebooks to the northeast.

One of the things that has always been interesting to me is the role that winter sports and winter itself has played in the development of Vermont as a state, as a community and the economy. Studies that came out in 2017 have shown that within 25 years, all ski resorts in southern New England will close. Our winters are getting shorter so the ski industry is now looking at a situation where in New England, where we have a particular set of elements that make winter what it is, only the higher elevation ski resorts will survive. And what they have to offer, they'll have less of to offer.

So in many ways, skiers are the canary in the coal mine for climate change. We are some of the first to see some of the results of that all around the country. And it's not as simple as saying, you know, we have less snow, what we have now is a period of transition where extreme weather is what characterizes climate change.

Uh, you know, skiers should be at the forefront of the movement to save winter, you know, to stop climate change. So what we have now really is a political crisis.

But if we are the canaries in the coal mine, skiers ought to be singing very loudly right now if they want to keep doing what it is we love to do.