THE WHITE SABOTEUR
Everything beyond the polar circles is unique: the sound, the air, the light... the feeling of being alone, in the middle of nowhere. When you stay still, the landscape becomes a moving one, slowly evolving around you. There is something sublime in seeing this world disappear, alongside our own finiteness. To understand its fragile beauty, you must have traveled through it.
Everywhere, the world of ice is retreating under our impact. In just a few years, icy landscapes are transforming into barren fields of rock. According to the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI), within 25 years, one-third of the glaciers on the World Heritage list will have disappeared. In the Alps alone, it’s estimated that 90% of glaciers will be gone in the next 50 years.
Despite activists, scientists, and civil society raising alarms ever louder about the disappearance of these seemingly eternal ice giants, the timeline does not appear to bend toward a viable planetary balance.
Are we, as humans, witnessing the fossilization of the cryosphere? Could it be that we are creating our own asteroid?