Short film featuring Whitefish aims to raise awareness about climate change
Three-time Olympian and X Games gold-medalist Maggie Voisin, featured in the new “75 Years” film about climate change advocacy and protecting winter from a warming planet, streaming now (photo courtesy of Brian Schott).
View the short film “75 Years” by Explore Whitefish, Whitefish Mountain Resort and Protect Our Winters streaming online now (photo courtesy of Explore Whitefish).
Explore Whitefish, Whitefish Mountain Resort, and Protect Our Winters have released a new short film to raise awareness about climate change and help empower people to protect their communities, lifestyles and livelihoods from a warming planet.
This year, as Whitefish Mountain Resort marks its 75th anniversary, the new 12-minute film brings into focus that the Rocky Mountains are warming twice as fast as the global average. If warming trends continue, winter in Whitefish could nearly disappear 75 years from now, say those behind the film.
“75 Years” features three-time Olympian and X Games gold-medalist Maggie Voisin, as well as scientists, writers, community leaders and members of the local freestyle ski team.
If global emissions stay on the same trajectory, 20 of the 21 destinations that have previously hosted the Olympic Winter Games won’t be viable for safe, fair competition by the end of the century.
The film also includes narrative and historical photography on the loss of glaciers in Glacier National Park, efforts at replanting the endangered whitebark pine in the high alpine, trends for wildfire and snow loss and local zero-waste initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Last year, Explore Whitefish and Whitefish Mountain Resort joined forces with Protect Our Winters to advance climate advocacy on behalf of the Whitefish community.
To view the film and learn more, visit www.explorewhitefish.com/pow.
