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Sinking Sundarbans on display in London
Posted by jamie on 14 January 2010.
Small islands bereft of mountains are going to sink beneath the waves as sea levels rise and for the millions of people living on them, climate change is not some distant, abstract concept but a concrete reality. As noted last week, the Sundarbans islands of India and Bangladesh have lost four islands completely. Sorry, 'lost' implies that they were carelessly misplaced behind a cupboard. 'Forcibly taken' would perhaps be more apt.
Photographer Peter Caton has made several trips to the Sundarbans to document what's happening there and his photos have appeared in our recent Sinking Sundarbans slideshow. Now an exhibition of the same name, supported by Greenpeace, has opened at gallery@oxo in London and comes highly recommended by our photo editors Daphne and Angela.
It's open 11am-6pm every day until 24 January at Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, London SE1 9PH. More details on the gallery website.
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Credibility
Hi,
I'm a long term supporter of Greenpeace and think this is a brilliant collection of images which bring the plight of others to our slightly out of touch industrialised shores. Personally I think the time has passed for politicians to act on climate change. We still need to get them on board as they are able to make massive changes fast. But for now it's time to roll up our sleeves and engage in direct action whether this be blockading coal imports to building wind turbines and sustainable transport networks.
Anyways back to my main point: it would be nice if possible for contributors to greenpeace blogs also posted their surname, for referencing purposes. this would make it possible to cite the location of these photographs/summaries on the web properly. It is simply not acceptable for a newspaper article or essay to cite anonymous blogs. The climate change deniers are widely criticised for doing this so we shouldn't allow ourselves to end up doing the same.
Cheers,
Jethro Gauld
JetG.