Air Pollution Kills April 21, 2013
James Balog at TED
I watched last night the documentary of James Balog on Nat Geo entitled "Chasing Ice" on glacier melt at the Poles. It is such a powerful work on the effects of global warming/climate change using only photographs. He and his team (he formed a team known as Extreme Ice Survey) put time lapse cameras with computer control to monitor the retreat of glaciers (indicative of ice melt). He graphically showed for instance, that the glacier retreated by as l, ong as 9 miles, longer than the retreat in the last century. Or that there was calving of ice, the equivalent of Manhattan NY, but thrice as thick, or that the glacier line went down by as much as the height of Empire State Building.
This is no James Balog. I could not afford a time lapse camera, nor do I have backing of Nat Geo. But in my small way, through the camera lens, maybe we can make people aware how much we are trying to hurt ourselves with our own doing - polluting the air we breathe
Watch his videos/photos study of ice melt. Do you think this site is doing a parallel work, albeit on a very local scale for Metro Manila air pollution?
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