Gosh, I really miss a couple of miles of ice over northern north America... Oh what will we do now that they’re gone... Oh the pain...
Don’t you know the rules? Choose an arbitrary point in time when people were able to take photographs, then announce that this is the way the world must stay - FOREVER.
+1 if Hemingway has written a story with the name of the place in the title. It helps you feel all broody and noble.
“Oh, the pain”
If you have read the first link in Comment #1, you will have seen the potential for very large pain. The article points out that Kilimenjaro is a poor example, but that glacial melting and disappearance is a world wide phenomena. It points out that the “stans”, China, and India are all very dependent on glacial meltwater. You think we have trouble in Pakistan now, guess what happens when they no longer have river water. The article points out that loss of glaciers would cut the Ganges River flow by 2/3, affecting 1/2 BILLION people. You can laugh, but your children and grandchildren may pay the price of war, famine, etc. I have a son in Special Forces, so I think about this. You should too.
“Oh, the pain”
If you have read the first link in Comment #1, you will have seen the potential for very large pain. The article points out that Kilimenjaro is a poor example, but that glacial melting and disappearance is a world wide phenomena. It points out that the “stans”, China, and India are all very dependent on glacial meltwater. You think we have trouble in Pakistan now, guess what happens when they no longer have river water. The article points out that loss of glaciers would cut the Ganges River flow by 2/3, affecting 1/2 BILLION people. You can laugh, but your children and grandchildren may pay the price of war, famine, etc. I have a son in Special Forces, so I think about this. You should too.