This weekend, 600 people posed naked on a melting glacier for pornographer, I mean photographer, Spencer Tunick. Greenpeace commissioned the work in an effort to increase awareness of global climate change. The mostly European models converged on the Aletsch Glacier near Bettmeralp, Switzerland to show their support; and their naughty bits.
According to Greenpeace, Swiss glaciers have lost about 1/3 of their length and 1/2 their volume over the past 150 years. The Aletsch ice floe ebbed 377 ft. in 2005 alone, and the melting rate seems to be increasing. Greenpeace predicts that the current global warming situation will strip Switzerland of all it's glaciers by 2080, and they can't bare the though. "An emergency provokes extreme responses: human beings in danger will abandon social niceties, etiquette, and the norms of acceptable behaviour to raise an alarm any way they can when lives are in danger." All models that raised more than an alarm were politely asked to exit the shoot.
According to Greenpeace, Swiss glaciers have lost about 1/3 of their length and 1/2 their volume over the past 150 years. The Aletsch ice floe ebbed 377 ft. in 2005 alone, and the melting rate seems to be increasing. Greenpeace predicts that the current global warming situation will strip Switzerland of all it's glaciers by 2080, and they can't bare the though. "An emergency provokes extreme responses: human beings in danger will abandon social niceties, etiquette, and the norms of acceptable behaviour to raise an alarm any way they can when lives are in danger." All models that raised more than an alarm were politely asked to exit the shoot.In a statement to Geneva's Le Temps newspaper, the glacier said: "We're in the Alps, I'm made of ice, don't you people know about shrinkage!"
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