Praying (and Stripping) for Ice - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
Andrew C. Revkin writes:
The Associated Press has a story from the Swiss Alps providing an update on a situation I wrote about in 1993 in Conde Nast Traveler (two years before I came to The Times). At the peak of the “Little Ice Age,” villagers there prayed for the Aletsch glacier to stop advancing. Now they have switched to praying for the ice to stop retreating. (The photo above is of the nearby Rhone glacier.) The article says they are planning to seek formal approval from Pope Benedict XVI to update the 19th-century vow, which still focuses on avoiding catastrophes related to too much ice, to call for the glacier’s return. Given trajectories for ice loss in the Alps, and for global emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, divine intervention may be worth a try. In 2007 the photographer Spencer Tunik tried another approach on the Aletsch, inviting several hundred volunteers to pose nude on the melting ice (nudity alert) to get the world’s attention.
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