Post by ZandraJoi on Aug 30, 2020 12:00:01 GMT -5
www.notokmovie.com
"UN-GLACIER TOUR 2019
Many tourists in Iceland are enchanted by the opportunity to walk across glaciers or thrilled to snowmobile across them. The Un-glacier Tour—the only one in the world—is different. It is a guided hike to the top of Ok mountain and an opportunity to see the glacial remains of Okjökull (Ok glacier). As anthropogenic climate change drives glaciers toward extinction, the Un-glacier Tour is meant to be a reckoning with glacial demise as well as a celebration of glacial life. From the top of Ok mountain, it is possible to see three other spectacular glaciers and a shield volcano.
Anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer developed the Un-Glacier Tour in 2018 and in 2019 they created a memorial marker to be placed atop Ok mountain in commemoration of Ok glacier: the first of Iceland's major glaciers to be lost to climate change. The memorial marker, with words authored by one of Iceland’s most prominent writers, Andri Snaer Magnason, is the world's first monument to a glacier-that-was: a modest recognition of a body of ice that once moved, but that now exists only in the form of what the Icelandic glaciologist Oddur Sigurdsson calls "dead ice." The Un-Glacier Tour II, on August 18, 2019 was attended by 100 people including prominent politicians and artists, and featured the installation of the memorial plaque. Several children in attendance pushed the bronze memorial into place, symbolically cementing a more hopeful future. Coverage of the event and the initiative to commemorate Okjökull can be found in several thousand news reports published around the world from July 20-August 25, 2019."
My notes: Movie is about a glacier that got demoted ‘cos smaller now. Climate change, global warming, whatever people want to call it, whatever they want their real agenda to be. Point is, things ARE changing. Coral reefs are being bleached ‘cos the temp rose just a few degrees & the living animals on them are moving off the corals & so the corals die. Half of corals have died off now. Mass deaths of animals. I do believe there are people who are controlling the weather. Not all the weather but just too much of a coincidence when things happen. Diseases that were eradicated are back now. We have ‘superbugs’. Even if ONE things gets affected, it affects everything else. Humans trying to control the earth when it boils down to it.
Climate goes up & down but w/ human involvement, it’s been more down. Can’t deny that. With all the pollution out there, toxins from the plastics, the environment IS changing. More than it would, or rather SHOULD ‘cos of humans. If we’d leave the earth to itself, it would be ok. i.e. the mosquitoes. They killed off the bats & birds that ate the mosquitoes so now they play mother nature to do what nature would’ve done. But we screw it up. So now we have super mosquitoes & then we spray more to kill those super mosquitoes on top of killing off all the good guys. I don’t go w/ the political or the ‘in’ thing of climate change/ global warming, like I said, whatever people want to call it. World is changing, too much & too fast. & it’s ‘cos of humans & their greed. Cutting down the forests to plant stupid ‘money makers’ instead of letting the forests be forests. & hence killing off animals. More & more are going extinct.
"UN-GLACIER TOUR 2019
Many tourists in Iceland are enchanted by the opportunity to walk across glaciers or thrilled to snowmobile across them. The Un-glacier Tour—the only one in the world—is different. It is a guided hike to the top of Ok mountain and an opportunity to see the glacial remains of Okjökull (Ok glacier). As anthropogenic climate change drives glaciers toward extinction, the Un-glacier Tour is meant to be a reckoning with glacial demise as well as a celebration of glacial life. From the top of Ok mountain, it is possible to see three other spectacular glaciers and a shield volcano.
Anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer developed the Un-Glacier Tour in 2018 and in 2019 they created a memorial marker to be placed atop Ok mountain in commemoration of Ok glacier: the first of Iceland's major glaciers to be lost to climate change. The memorial marker, with words authored by one of Iceland’s most prominent writers, Andri Snaer Magnason, is the world's first monument to a glacier-that-was: a modest recognition of a body of ice that once moved, but that now exists only in the form of what the Icelandic glaciologist Oddur Sigurdsson calls "dead ice." The Un-Glacier Tour II, on August 18, 2019 was attended by 100 people including prominent politicians and artists, and featured the installation of the memorial plaque. Several children in attendance pushed the bronze memorial into place, symbolically cementing a more hopeful future. Coverage of the event and the initiative to commemorate Okjökull can be found in several thousand news reports published around the world from July 20-August 25, 2019."
My notes: Movie is about a glacier that got demoted ‘cos smaller now. Climate change, global warming, whatever people want to call it, whatever they want their real agenda to be. Point is, things ARE changing. Coral reefs are being bleached ‘cos the temp rose just a few degrees & the living animals on them are moving off the corals & so the corals die. Half of corals have died off now. Mass deaths of animals. I do believe there are people who are controlling the weather. Not all the weather but just too much of a coincidence when things happen. Diseases that were eradicated are back now. We have ‘superbugs’. Even if ONE things gets affected, it affects everything else. Humans trying to control the earth when it boils down to it.
Climate goes up & down but w/ human involvement, it’s been more down. Can’t deny that. With all the pollution out there, toxins from the plastics, the environment IS changing. More than it would, or rather SHOULD ‘cos of humans. If we’d leave the earth to itself, it would be ok. i.e. the mosquitoes. They killed off the bats & birds that ate the mosquitoes so now they play mother nature to do what nature would’ve done. But we screw it up. So now we have super mosquitoes & then we spray more to kill those super mosquitoes on top of killing off all the good guys. I don’t go w/ the political or the ‘in’ thing of climate change/ global warming, like I said, whatever people want to call it. World is changing, too much & too fast. & it’s ‘cos of humans & their greed. Cutting down the forests to plant stupid ‘money makers’ instead of letting the forests be forests. & hence killing off animals. More & more are going extinct.