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December 23, 2007
Who Moved My Glacier?
Here is an OP-Ed piece that appeared in today's NY Times. To read three other OP-ED pieces on our warming world, please visit the following link.
By JON CHRISTENSEN
Glacier Peak Wilderness Area, Wash.
“WE don’t need no stinking G.P.S.,” said our guide. It was getting late. And dark. We were descending from the summit of Glacier Peak in the Cascade Range, and our guide wasn’t sure where we were. It was unfamiliar terrain — the kind we’re all going to have to get used to traveling through and living in.
“That thing has been wrong all day,” the guide said as I pulled out my global positioning system receiver. He was a total gearhead, and I had thought he might appreciate my nifty new Garmin Gpsmap 60CSx. But he said, “If you’re always looking down at that thing, you don’t see the territory.” He glanced at his compass and then stared at the rocky ridges poking through the gloaming.
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