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Climate change is literally eating into the body of our civilisation

Posted by jossg - 9 September 2011 at 1:35pm - 5 Comments

Georgia Hirsty writes about her role in the recreation of Vitruvian Man. She's a deckhand aboard the Arctic Sunrise, at 80 degrees north.

Everything north of Holland was new territory for me. I’d never seen the ice and could barely imagine it. When I asked a shipmate of mine what it was like, he said: “you feel how old it is, how untouched.”

Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man Recreated on Arctic Sea Ice

Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man Recreated on Arctic Sea Ice
Author Credit:  Greenpeace / Nick Cobbing
Date Taken:  8 September, 2011