Global Warming Protest on Aletsch Glacier
On August 18, 2007, Greenpeace combined forces with photographer Spencer Tunick to stage a nude protest of global warming on the Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland.
About 600 people from all over Europe participated. For Tunick, it was another opportunity to do another of his "installations" that involve posing large numbers of naked people.
For Greenpeace, it was a way to dramatize the issue of global warming. The Aletsch Glacier is the largest glacier in Europe, but like glaciers all over the world, it has been shrinking.
The air temperature was about 50 degrees F, which was not too bad, but note that the participants are standing on some kind of little pads so they don't have to stand on the ice with their bare feet.
Here's a rear view for those who enjoy that perspective.
And then they lay down on the ice. That had to be cold! The men could be excused if there was some shrinkage.
But speaking of shrinkage, glaciers are shrinking increasingly fast. More than 80 percent of the famed snows of Kilimanjaro have melted away since 1912. Glaciers in the Himalayas are melting so fast, researches believe that most will virtually disappear by 2035. That's only 13 years from now. The cause – global warming – is obvious to those who haven't stuck their head where the sun don't shine.
4 comments:
Thank you for the "rear view". Unfortunately, humans will destroy this planet before they pull their heads from where the sun don't shine.
I would like to comment welcoming the male nudity, but I have to agree with Rick: humans are destroying the earth, or at least, the possibility of living on it for humans themselves.
Global Warming is here!
Global warming is false. Just an excuse for governments to commit genocide.
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