It describes the loss of familiar landscapes and landmarks around which people have framed their personal memories of people and places. This ties in with the idea of cynefin, which we have been exploring with Year 7 this year - adapted from materials from the GA's SIG Wales.
We have already seen the change to the map in Iceland as a result of the disappearance of a glacier called the Ok. This has resulted in the name changing from Okjökull.
There is a plaque at this location, with words written by Andri Snaer Magnason.
“A glacier must be thick enough to move by its own weight,” he says. If a glacier becomes too thin, “the glacier will stop moving and will be declared a dead glacier.” Though Ok is touted as the first Icelandic glacier to lose its designation as a glacier, “there are many cases on the verge of being a glacier or not being a glacier.”
“No one should wake up to see places where they created memories gone. and yet that is what the climate crisis is doing to millions.” https://t.co/rj25QYK6UL
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) October 1, 2022
Image: Moulin on Sölheimajökull, Iceland - image by Alan Parkinson, shared under CC license
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