Iceland Holds Funeral for its First Glacier Lost to the Climate Crisis

“What we are seeing here is just one face of the climate crisis.” Iceland is mourning the loss of Okjökull, its first glacier lost to climate change.

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00:00I hope that this ceremony will be an inspiration not only to us here in Iceland, but also for

00:13the rest of the world, because what we're seeing here is just one phase of the climate

00:18crisis.

00:43A big part of our renewable energy is produced in the glacial rivers, producing electricity

00:50from the glacial rivers, so I think we also need to be conscious of that, that that's

00:54why the disappearance of the glaciers will affect our energy system.

01:07By writing in something eternal material, that makes you think differently, and actually

01:12normally in our lives we don't think that what we're doing has consequences or will

01:17be somewhere in 200 years.