Welcome to Burn it All Down. It's the Feminist You Need. I'm Brenda Elsie, and today I'm talking with

extensively on climate change and sport. First, you'll hear from

Britney Peterson, who's reported for the AP on how the lack of ice has affected pond hockey

and the communities that participate in it. And then author and advocate, David Goldblatt joins us

to discuss his chairship of Football for Future and also how

football in the global sense has both perpetuated and reflected the climate crises that are

facing us all.

I spoke with Brittany Peterson, an Emmy Award-winning video journalist based in Denver, where she covers water in Western United States for the Associated Press.

She's an all-formats reporter, and her recent coverage looks at how one town in Colorado's Rocky Mountains delayed a pond hockey tournament last month due to thin ice.

So, Brittany, I want to start with the tournament. It kind of feels like this quaint town,

Grand Lake. Can you give us a sense of what that tournament feels like to attend?

Absolutely. Grand Lake is an important recreation destination, particularly in the

summer months, as it is the western entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. So

oftentimes two million people will flow through there in the summertime. And in the

winter, there's a lot of recreation and tourism

opportunities. However, it's much slower than the summer, which is why moments like a pond

hockey tournament or their winter carnival or their ice fishing tournament are really important

economic drivers to this small mountain town. So they have this tournament every year and it's ice hockey.

It's just like local schools on this lake. It is 18 and up. So it is a it's an adult friendly

pond hockey tournament. It's very much like has festival vibes to it. There are multiple

cans of beers being cracked throughout the day.

So there's five rinks that are on ice here on the lake. And there's a speaker in the middle.

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