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Maria Kidd's avatar

Hi Alexander, new subscriber from Sydney Australia, I have been enjoying all your posts, great photos, can’t wait to travel again. Thank you for all you do on behalf of humanity. We certainly need people such as yourself agitating for major change. Unfortunately, our current government is having a hard time moving away from fossil fuels, it’s desperate times for many of us in this country wanting to see genuine climate change policy delivered. We live in hope, cheers.

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Evelyne Luethy's avatar

Interesting timing of this newsletter and the event(s) mentioned. I spent the last two days in Zermatt. Apart from the Matterhorn (it's as stunning as it looks on pictures), there were a few things I noticed and have been noticing. So much concrete used very high up for dams, to control water coming down the mountain, new roads, just houses being built in the most random places and also, the railway tracks. As much as I liked the train ride - that also struck me. One of the things people in Switzerland seem to ignore is that it's not only our glaciers that are melting, it's also our Alps that are crumbling. Permafrost isn't holding the rock together the way it used to. I took some pictures of weird structures in the ice way up at 10,000 ft.

There's always several factors to such desasters, as you mentioned, but we really often wait "until long after the disaster has struck" to act.

Also glad the US is "back" - they should have never left.

I saw snow as well this week. It even snowed a little on Gornergrat yesterday. I look forward to many more of your snow pictures. Did you ice skate? Must be in your genes. Although, I'm Swiss and I don't really ski - forget I asked ;-).

As for Luna - a well deserved rest, I'm sure. She must have a very busy cat life. I love her little cat bed. And I'm amazed she actually uses it. I grew up with cats and they slept EVERYWHERE but never in their cat beds.

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