Fox is an editor and writer at Powder magazine, and in a new book, he says climate change threatens to put the ski industry out of business--likely sooner than you might think.
According to one study, two-thirds of Europe’s ski areas may have to close by 2050 because of lack of snow.
“They have a pretty difficult time of turning profits as it is," Fox tells Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner. "It’s a tough business. And then you come along and say ‘well, you’re going to lose all or half of your snow in the next 50-70 years. It’s maybe a little bit too much to process all at once.”
His new book is called “DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow.”
To write it, Fox went on a fact-finding trip in the West last winter to see the effects of climate change first-hand.
“Pretty much everyone that I spoke with had stories of disappearing snow,” Fox says.
