Climate Change Is No Longer Glacial

Marmolada Glacier Avalanche As Climate Crisis Metaphor

Lester Golden
Thoughts And Ideas
Published in
4 min readAug 1, 2022

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/WWI_-_Col_di_Lana_-_View_of_the_Marmolada_glacier.jpg A much bigger Marmolada photographed during WWI. What level of idiocy leads humans to fight an artillery and trench war at 2000–3000 meters?

A much shrunken glacier in 2013:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Ghiacciaio_della_Marmolada.jpg

Ernest Hemingway’s aphorism about going bankrupt is also a climate crisis metaphor…

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Lester Golden
Thoughts And Ideas

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.