The American public has been slow to appreciate the slowly unfolding disaster known as global warming. Until recently, it was hard to see the impacts of climate change. Not anymore. In the last couple of years, pictures of melting glaciers, swimming polar bears and storm damage have become common. It may be that the appearance of these pictures is what has finally shifted public opinion, with large majorities of people in nearly all countries appreciating that climate change is a serious problem.
CNN has a slide show tour of global melting narrated by the renowned photographer Gary Braasch. Braasch’s dramatic photographs, accompanied by a narrative by Bill McKibben, appear in a new book, What Matters, created by David Elliott Cohen. The book is available as a free download.
Millions of words have been written about global warming, but it is the work of photographers like Braasch and Cohen that shows us the immediacy of the crisis.
