Zitat des Tages von James Balog:
Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.
I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.
Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.
We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone.
Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.
We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that.
There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear.
You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.
I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.
When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.
At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.
I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.
