Saturday, September 06, 2008

Goosebumps & Glaciers

Six hundred people shed their clothes on a glacier in the Swiss Alps to bodily cry out for help against a planetary emergency: global warming.
The nude volunteers posed for Greenpeace and renowned naked 'installation' artist Spencer Tunick on the Aletsch Glacier.
Without clothes, the human body is vulnerable, exposed, it's life or death at the whim of the elements. Global warming is stripping away the globes glaciers and leaving planet earth vulnerable to extreme weather, floods, sea-level rise, global decreases in carrying capacity and agricultural production, fresh water shortages, disease and mass human dislocations.
If global warming continues at its current rate, most glaciers in Switzerland will completely disappear by 2080. Over the last 150 years, alpine glaciers have reduced in size by approximately one third of their surface and half of their mass, and this melting is accelerating. The Aletsch Glacier retreated 115 meters (377 feet) in a single year from 2005 to 2006.
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