This is a thread for concentrating discussion about the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. We’re not disallowing dedicated posts about the Olympics on this community, but rather, this thread is more for any thoughts and discussions on the Olympics that are too small for their own thread. If you’re lucky enough to attend the events live, we’d love to see pictures, too!
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My favorite so far has been the whining about “human-made-snow”… a new term they seem to have invented in the past few days. Eg 1, 2
Every country using artificial snow for resorts and skiing for 50+ years 👌 . China doing the same for the winter olympics: deafening, authoritarian, but at what cost!!?!
I’ve seen tons of people complain how energy intensive and therefore environmentally harmful it is.
While they drive their SUVs to their oversized houses in the middle of nowhere American suburbia, presumably. Like, I’m as environmentalist as they come, but this one event is insignificant in the grand scheme of things, and if you’re going to argue against artificial snow for this single event, you might as well argue against all sports everywhere because they’re all environmental demons.
https://www.skiresort.info/indoor-ski-areas/usa/
Oh look! The US is planning two indoor ski resorts IN THE SUBTROPICS, where they will each consume more energy than all the Olympics till the end of time using artificial snow! Why isn’t Western media frothing at the mouth over this too?
Hahah I overheard the news talking about that earlier but had no context. Like that’s not a thing evetywhere, especially when you’re dealing with perfectly groomed courses.
Guys, can we please remove this megathead? The olympics are over.
Oh crap, forgot. Will do.
Thank you!
