The ski holiday industry has been accused of damaging the environment. But this is nonsense. If you say that we should stop people skiing, you would have to conclude that we should stop everyone going on holiday. What causes the glaciers to melt is not skiing, it's everyone wasting energy by travelling when they don't need to. It has been calculated that tourist transport to and from a ski resort accounts for 74% of the resort's energy consumption, so the amount of energy used in the resorts themselves is relatively small. Because many ski lifts are run on renewable energy, people may actually be responsible for the production of less CO2 when they are on the ski slopes than in their daily lives back home.