Would You Get Naked to Draw Attention to Climate Change?
Aletsch Glacier sans birthday suits
I feel like it’s been naked people all over lately! I was just at the beach in Martha’s Vineyard (which is why there were so few posts last week) and I stumbled across the ‘nudist’ part of a far-flung beach, and now this news!
Greenpeace is sponsoring the photo shoot by famous nudie photographer Spencer Tunick. Some 600 nudists were arranged on the gorgeous Aletch glacier in Switzerland. Why on a glacier? “Environmentalists regard glaciers as key indicators of global warming and the signs are not good: glaciers are shrinking rapidly.”
Said one participant, “It’s a small thing to do to make a difference in the world, not to be a Bill Gates and leave a few billion dollars behind but to have some small impact of my existence here to hopefully get people to change the way we’re treating the planet.”
Via: Grist (scroll to bottom of page)
Starre Vartan
Starre Vartan is founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick.com and the author of the Eco-Chick Guide to Life. She's also a freelance science and environment writer who has published in National Geographic, CNN, Scientific American, Mental Floss, Pacific Standard, the NRDC, and many more. She lives on an island in Puget Sound with her partner and black cat. She was a geologist in her first career, and still picks up rocks wherever she goes.
