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The park formerly known as Glacier
In a world without glaciers, what would you call Glacier National Park?
Tongues firmly in cheeks, National Environmental Trust is sponsoring a contest to come up with a new name for the park. The winner gets a $250 gift certificate to REI, but really, it's about calling attention to the fact that continued inaction on climate change might make the park glacierless by 2030.
Kate Sheppard is Grist’s political reporter.
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caniscandida Posted 6:00 pm
14 May 2007
Actually, the one and only time I was in Glacier N.P., almost twenty years ago, there was great fog, and the visibility of the glaciers was not at all good. But still, I loved the moody atmosphere surrounding the lake, and the lodge, and the beautiful old boat, named the DeSmet as I recall, after the Belgian Jesuit missionary to the Flathead Indians and others in that vicinity in the 19th century, Pierre-Jean De Smet:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04752a.htm
As sad as it will be that the glaciers disappear, we may well hope that the park remains a place of great beauty.
It will be truly, unspeakably sad, that many living things will be pushed beyond the possibility of their continued existence in the park. Nevertheless, let us hope that there will be some examples of adaptation to new environmental conditions.
Chickens are our cousins!
So are other sensitive animals!
Enough is enough!
No more factory farms!
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MarkUK Posted 6:39 pm
14 May 2007
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caniscandida Posted 7:06 pm
14 May 2007
I hate the running lump of coal.
But I love the baleen whales. (Fin whales, or minkes I think, not humpbacks.)
Chickens are our cousins!
So are other sensitive animals!
Enough is enough!
No more factory farms!
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Ron Steenblik Posted 7:58 pm
14 May 2007
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Robert Delfs Posted 9:11 pm
14 May 2007
Robert Delfs
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planetthoughts Posted 9:53 pm
14 May 2007
Let's call it as we see it. The poster child for climate change should have the fact of its recognizability and symbolism, incorporated into the name. It would be truly a sign of changing times if the United States government chose a name like "Global Warming National Park", with the intention of recognizing the sadness that many plants, animals, and yes, people, are drastically affected in a negative way by climate change.
David Alexander
PlanetThoughts.org
Love your Planet.
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DonnClark Posted 10:14 pm
14 May 2007
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amazingdrx Posted 11:43 pm
14 May 2007
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog
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amazingdrx Posted 1:21 am
15 May 2007
Chinese Billionaire National Park... with the nation now bankrupt (due to contractors on america oil warring) and chinese billionaires holding the notes, why not sell them great spots for vacation Mcmansions in the parks!
Mountain Golf Course National Park... plenty of great high altitude golf space once those pesky glaciers are gone.
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog
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eriqa Posted 1:56 am
15 May 2007
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JMG Posted 2:57 am
15 May 2007
Michaels, Lindzen, and Singer Glacier Research Park
"An optimist is someone who thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist is someone who is afraid that the optimist is right."
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Montanaebiker Posted 3:01 am
15 May 2007
I think the "Bush Legacy" is hilarious, but we should keep in mind that while Bush has certainly done nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and really nothing that could even vaguely be construed as "environmentally friendly," it's each and every one of us who have contributed to this problem. So my suggestion is... Warm and Droughty National Park - Monument to Humankind.
It's rather ironic that Glacier is part of the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park...what should we call that when there are no more glaciers? The International War on Nature Park?
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Blitzkrieg59 Posted 3:07 am
15 May 2007
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - H.S.T.
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Kate Sheppard Posted 3:33 am
15 May 2007
Kate Sheppard
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Jones Posted 11:33 pm
15 May 2007
OK, without a glacier, the park would clearly have to close... but they're sitting on a marketing goldmine. More than twenty years of a cool, clean-tasting (TM) Pure Glacier Water (TM) resource that any number of beverage companies would be dying to get their hands on. And of course: it's organic!
Best of all, by the time the meltwater resource finally gives out, all that transportation and bottling activity will have created opportunities at other glaciers further north.
I think you should--no, must--take advantage of this uprecedented opportunity. We can't let dreary, misanthropic environmentalists deprive millions of Americans their birthright to the clean, cold taste (TM) of Pure Glacier Water (TM).
Of course, the park should be privatised and sold to a comapny that needs to diversify, Exxon Mobil, who could rename it American/Competitive Enterprise Park in honour of the entrepreneurial spirit of America. They could then sell the water consessions to some like-minded organisation that may recently have lost part of its funding...a perfect partnership.
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redwing Posted 3:41 am
16 May 2007
We could carve a giant X into the side of the mountain, and put an oil well right in the center!! Surround it with mini malls and gas stations! MMM they could serve Oil slick glacier slushies! I can't wait to go.
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MarchDancer Posted 11:21 am
22 May 2007
I propose: Lack of Blizzards National Park
In Peace, Harmony and Unity may we find ways to work together to meet our common goal - the health of our earthly Home.
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Randy1 Posted 2:01 am
04 Jun 2007
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