The other day I was in The Antarctic; not a place one
visits daily. Too heavy on gloves. Not counting man, who has really no
business being there at all, there are 47 species of animals in Antarctica;
far less than in the rainforests of Brasil and Kalimantan. That is
to say: for just now. Lumbering and burning of trees for agriculture is
impossible in Antarctica, as moss and lichen is all that grows there at
the rate of a few milimeters in 200 years. So chanses are that those 47
will come up tops in the end. On the other hand: the antarctic glaciers
seem to be melting as result of global heating and what is seal, penguin
and blue-eyed shag without ice? So, for how long will it last before it
all goes dodo's way? I am no soothsayer. Right now it is still all there
and it is beautiful: the animals, the birds, the lanscapes and above all
the ice. And I photographed it and those photographs are for sale, for
a man must live, with, or without ice.
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