MicheleV_AK on Nostr: "For five Democratic U.S. House members who were visiting Denali last week with staff ...
"For five Democratic U.S. House members who were visiting Denali last week with staff and family members, the signs of climate change made a profound impression.
The most striking thing they saw, multiple members said, was probably the landslide at a site called Pretty Rocks. There, at about the halfway point of Denali’s 92-mile road – the main access route for visitors to one of the most famous U.S. national parks – the ongoing slide wiped out a critical section, forcing a shutdown of public traffic that started in 2021 and is ongoing.
Most of the members confessed they knew little about the now-notorious Pretty Rocks landslide prior to the Denali trip.
“When I was coming here, I was told there was a landslide in the park. But I did not expect the entire road to disappear. I thought there would be rocks on the road, not this,” said Rep. Katie Porter, D-California, one of the visiting members."
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Alaska #BanFossilFuels
https://alaskabeacon.com/2023/07/15/for-visiting-u-s-house-members-denali-is-a-showcase-of-globally-significant-climate-change/
The most striking thing they saw, multiple members said, was probably the landslide at a site called Pretty Rocks. There, at about the halfway point of Denali’s 92-mile road – the main access route for visitors to one of the most famous U.S. national parks – the ongoing slide wiped out a critical section, forcing a shutdown of public traffic that started in 2021 and is ongoing.
Most of the members confessed they knew little about the now-notorious Pretty Rocks landslide prior to the Denali trip.
“When I was coming here, I was told there was a landslide in the park. But I did not expect the entire road to disappear. I thought there would be rocks on the road, not this,” said Rep. Katie Porter, D-California, one of the visiting members."
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Alaska #BanFossilFuels
https://alaskabeacon.com/2023/07/15/for-visiting-u-s-house-members-denali-is-a-showcase-of-globally-significant-climate-change/