OKJOKULL GLACIER, Iceland – a farewell with poetry, songs, moments of silence, speeches on urgent need to fight climate change. Icelandic officials, activists bade goodbye to what once was a glacier. A made for media memorial.
Gorgeous glacier stretched 6 square miles, 50 metres deep. Huge source of pure drinking water for 1000’s of years. Iceland’s 1st glacier to disappear. Geologists predict all of nation’s ice masses will disappear in 200 years. No time to lose.
Plaque for OK notes levels of heat trapping carbon dioxide. Bears a poignant message for the future: “Farewell to OK. Monument is to acknowledge we know what is happening, what urgently needs to be done. Only you will know if we did it”.
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