Blood glacier and creative #climate #storytelling for an uncertain #future

source: https://phys.org/news/2021-12-blood-glacier-creative-climate-storytelling.html

Stories about climate change often lean on what Tegelberg called "icons" of climate change, like a lone polar bear balancing on a melting iceberg, which distances the public from this reality due to how often this image is shared in mainstream media. Using time-lapse photography, however, brings an audience up close to the real impacts of a warming world, showing how much geological time is eroded from just a few hundred years of human activity.

#science #politics #environment #story #movie #communication #nature #humanity #earth