I can’t see any glaciers from my window. Maybe if I watched them shrinking month by month like the farmers in Bolivia do who are losing their water supply, I might be worried. But as I sit on my couch that was made in China, typing on my Japanese computer, drinking coffee brought to my cup from one of those unseen third world countries, I’m not too preoccupied about glaciers. I recycle, I buy organic, I line dry my clothes blah blah blah but if I counted how many minutes per day I dedicate to thinking about big chunks of ice, it would amount to…well, almost nothing. Why is it sometimes difficult to make the connection between my life and that of a polar bear’s? I’ll probably never see a glacier from my window and I won’t meet a polar bear outside of a zoo; but that doesn’t give me an excuse to ignore climate change. The beauty of living in an age when we have a thousand different ways to watch the world beyond the view from our windows is that we now have a chance to see what global warming means on a grander scale. The video above puts a face on climate change. It helps to make the connection between my couch and the global part of global warming. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to watch it. It’s worth it, I promise.

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