A glacier is defined as 'a huge mass of ice that moves slowly over land'.
Glaciers play an important role in balancing the world's climate and
weather systems. Growing up, I considered glaciers as eternal - looking up
at the vast ice caps shining against the horizon, I imagined that they had
always been, and would always remain.
Now I watch on as the eternal melts away, caused by human influence on the
weather system. Large systemic changes are required to stop human
overexploitation of materials and resources to halt the warming of our
planet.
A few years ago, Iceland lost its first glacier. The Icelandic author
Andri Snær Magnason wrote a letter to the future to mark the occassion.
How many more glaciers will we lose?
