A Quick Trip to Antarctica

On Earth Day take a moment to look at what’s at stake

Antarctica through a porthole (photo and all photos that follow by Paul Greenberg)

A few years back, while researching a book on climate change, I had an opportunity to travel to Antarctica. It was a short trip by Antarctic standards but those few nightless weeks burned themselves into my brain and are with me every time I hear a climate change denialist yammer away. I could write more but I’ll let these images speak for themselves. This is what’s at stake. This and every other living landscape we cherish.

Read more about what you can do to fight climate change in The Climate Diet, out this week from Penguin Press