On thin ice

摘要

The speed of society's response to melting ice in the polar regions has been glacial. Indeed, James Balog's photography shows that the response is making glaciers look alarmingly fast. WHEN IT comes to illustrating the effects of climate change on the planet it's hard to beat the famous photograph of an exhausted polar bear desperately clutching on to a rapidly melting block of ice. This image has been adopted as a symbol of climate change and has, in some ways, made the polar bear the poster child of the environmental movement.