We can no longer ignore it. Climate change is happening. Experts say that the devastating wildfires in Australia and the flash floods and hail that followed are clear indications that the climate is changing fast. For those who still doubt this is happening, here is proof.
Last year, Iceland built a monument for its first glacier and wrote its epitaph. The glacier, named Okjokull (“Ok Glacier”) had disappeared. They placed a bronze plaque in the western part of Iceland, in memory of the lost glacier. Iceland’s Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir, Environment Minister Gudmuundur Ingi Gudbrandsson, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson were present at the event.
It is the first monument to a glacier lost to climate change anywhere in the world. The plaque has the words “A letter to the Future” written on it. It has a label “41 5 ppm CO2” that shows the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere recorded in May, 2019. The plaque also reads, “In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done.” The monument is meant to spread the message that our glaciers are disappearing fast and it is due to climate change.
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