Monday, December 31, 2012

"Chasing Ice" captures beauty and tragedy of melting glaciers

Sacramento Bee: Seeing "Chasing Ice," a new movie that chronicles the rapid disappearance of the world's glaciers as man-made climate change proceeds, I was reminded of Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now." In "Chasing Ice," we watch transfixed at the beauty of ancient ice mountains larger than Manhattan falling into the sea even as we are struck by the horror of that destruction - and the moral dilemma it poses as we consume fossil fuels. Similarly, we watch mesmerized in "Apocalypse Now" as a squad...

URL: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/12/30/5080745/editorial-notebook-chasing-ice.html
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