Keeping Kilimanjaro on ice

[hedgetrimmer]

link: http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1311202003

~SNIP~

Oliver Morton


The green-gold expanse of savannah; above it, the purple horizon-hiding haze; and above that, like a pyramid improbably suspended in the sky, the snows of Kilimanjaro.

“Great, high and unbelievably white in the sun,” as Ernest Hemingway wrote, the continent of Africa – some would say our planet itself – has hardly anything to show more fair.

But the show could soon be over. The summit of Kilimanjaro is losing its ice so quickly that it could be barren dirt before the next decade is out.

When the ice goes, it will take with it an irreplaceable ten-millennium record of the African climate, a profitable tourist attraction and a source of beauty that is a joy to contemplate.

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[salinen]

1. Overintensafication of all

systems is wiping out the planet. Social, political and Environmental all a on collision course with no brakes. The end will come soon enough. Let's hope the next creature to evolve to awareness will be classier than us.

[Minstrel Boy]

3. future generations

will regard our age with fascination and horror. We had it all, and we blew it.

[Eloriel]

4. What future generations? n/t

[tabasco]

5. One of the big differences between us and conservatives.

We actually consider the best interest of future generations. Most conservatives I know think "let them solve their own problems" or "they will invent technology to solve the problems." It's unfortunate that they don't realize a ruined biosphere and thousands of extinct species cannot be fixed by any technology. Liberals believe in acting to serve the interests of the future. Conservatives only wish to enrich themselves now and let their grandchildren have what's leftover.

[0007]

8. 'It's all over now baby blue!

Not only did we blow it we showed our ass with no class while doing it!

[KansDem]

2. Another graphic...

[NickB79]

6. Reminds me of seeing Glacier Natl Park in Montana

What glaciers? The park has almost nothing left compared to how it was a century ago when it was founded.

[amazona]

7. there were still glaciers there in the early 1970s

A few years ago a conservation group sent me a photo of Glacier National Park, and I couldn't believe how it had changed.

[NickB79]

9. True

But after my visit, I found some old pictures of the park at the turn of the century in a library book, and compared to today, there are very few glaciers left. There are still glaciers there, but nothing like how they were only 100 yrs ago.