Name: On time and water | Andri Snær Magnason
Uploaded: 2020-10-23T23:45:11.000Z
Duration: 3 min 35 s
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In 2019, we had lost our first glacier to climate change:

we expect all our glaciers to follow the same path.

Sólheimajökull, in the south coast of Iceland.

I wrote a poem for a plaque that was placed on the mountain

"This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening

My grandparents, they were glacier explorers at times,

They went on a glacial honeymoon in the year 1956.

For three weeks, they were mapping and traveling Vatnajökull,

sleeping in tents in extreme temperatures.

And I asked them once, "Weren't you cold?"

and now we know that many glaciers will be gone

within the time someone born today becomes as old as my grandmother is now.

We need to start connecting to the future in an intimate and urgent way.

My grandmother, she was born in the year 1924.

the people I will love the most in my life will still be alive in the year 2150.

Because our time is the time of the people that we know and love,

and our time is also the time of the people that we will know and love,

When a scientist says 2100, we just shrug; we don't feel connected.

But I asked my grandmother, "Are 100 years a long time or short time?"

I feel like I was traveling the glaciers yesterday."

And I'm quite sure that we want them to look at our time

and we actually, eventually, did the right thing.

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On time and water | Andri Snær Magnason

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