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December 9, 2009
Consequences by Noor features the work of nine photographers from the photo agency Noor who documents the devastating effects of climate change around the globe including the rising sea level in the Maldives, coal mining in Poland and oil sand extraction in Canada.
The goal of the exhibition, which is being shown at Copenhagen where world leaders are crafting a new climate change deal, is to document some of the causes and consequences, from deforestation to changing sea levels, as well as the people whose lives and jobs are part of the carbon culture.
Francesco Zizola, Malé, Maldives,
Scientists say that The Maldives, the lowest-lying nation on Earth, is at risk of disappearing from the world map.Malé sits on an island just three feet above sea level. To counter the tides and storms, a $60 million 11 feet high concrete barrier system, financed by Japan, now rings Malé.
Australians are on the also front lines in experiencing the life-altering consequences of climate change. Despite this, as the Washington Post story says:
Most farmers, the biggest losers as the river shrinks, simply do not buy the notion that southern Australia's climate is changing in a way that is probably irreversible. Their skepticism has withstood nearly 13 years of unrelenting drought, falling incomes and daily encounters with a river that is dying in front of their eyes.
Its just a long drought for them, and the cycle will return. As climate change makes drought an unexceptional circumstance as soutyhern Australia becomes hotter and drier, so the farmers will be weaned off drought assistance.
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