We hear about pieces of ice the size of continents breaking off of
Antarctica, rapidly melting glaciers in the Himalayas, and ice
sheets in the Arctic crumbling to the sea, but does it really
matter? Will melting glaciers change our lives? Absolutely.
Glaciers are built and destroyed during ice ages and interglacial
periods. These massive ice bodies hold three quarters of our
freshwater, yet we don't have laws to protect them from climate
change. When they melt, they increase sea levels, alter the Earth's
reflectivity, wreak havoc for ocean and air currents, destabilize
global ecosystems, warm our climate, and bring on floods that swamp
millions of acres of coastal land. The critical ecological role
they play to keep our global climate stable, and the environmental
functions they provide, wither. And, as climate change warms
glacier cores, collapsing glacier ice triggers tsunamis that send
deadly massive ice blocks, rocks, earth, and billions of liters of
water rushing down mountain valleys. It has happened before in the
Himalayas, the Central Andes, the Rockies and Western Cascades, and
the European Alps, and it will happen again. In his new book
Meltdown, Jorge Daniel Taillant takes readers deeper into the
cryosphere, connecting the dots between climate change, glacier
melt, and the impacts that receding glacier ice brings to
livability on Earth, to our environments, and to our communities.
Taillant walks us through the little-known realm of the periglacial
environment, a world of invisible subsurface rock glaciers that
will outlive exposed glaciers as climate change destroys surface
ice. He also looks at actions that can help stop climate change and
save glaciers, exploring how society, politics, and our leaders
have responded to address the global COVID-19 pandemic and yet
largely continue to fail to address the even larger-looming and
escalating-crisis of climate change. Our climate is deteriorating
at a drastic rate, and it's happening right in front of us.
Meltdown is about glaciers and their unfolding demise during one of
the most critical moments of our planet's geological history. If we
can reconsider glaciers in a whole new light and understand the
critical role they play in our own sustainability, we may be able
to save the cryosphere.
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