Featured Image Credit: X / misterduncan
Topics: Global Warming, Environment, Travel, Science, Viral, Twitter
Jess Battison
Topics: Global Warming, Environment, Travel, Science, Viral, Twitter
We’ve been there, your back with the full motley crew of cousins for a family event or reunited with your primary school pals and someone’s mum demands you get a photo together.
Said photo is then plastered over Facebook with a side-by-side comparison of the same set up from when you were all younger.
And then you’re inundated with comments about how much you have (or haven’t changed) as people play spot the difference.
But when this Brit tourist took a holiday snap in the same spot 15 years apart, it revealed a rather devastating difference.
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Duncan Porter took to X to share two pictures of him and a woman at the Rhône Glacier this year, and from back in 2009.
He wrote in the post: “Fifteen years minus one day between these photos. Taken at the Rhone glacier in Switzerland today.
“Not gonna lie, it made me cry.”
And it’s not making the bloke upset because of a human loss or something different about him and his smiling companion but rather what’s behind them.
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The snap from back in 2009 shows the pair standing in front of a very bright, almost totally white background of the famous glaciers.
However, this year’s landscape looks sadly, extremely different.
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Instead of the totally snowy background, it’s much rockier and also even smaller, giving a clear vision of the effects of global warming on glaciers.
Essentially replacing what was ‘once a glacier’, is a ‘bloody great lake’.
The post has now been viewed by millions as people are left shocked at just bad and big the change is in the area.
Users wrote: “It strikes me that people simply do not know or understand what is happening (and will continue to happen) to this planet.”
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Many called it ‘devastating’, ‘f**ked’ and said: “We have no time to waste.”
As others echoed: "This is very sad/alarming."
It led to plenty urging: "We are IN CLIMATE CHANGE now. It's not coming, we are in it."
Some also shared similar experiences as they put: “Same for me when I go to Graubuenden and see the state of the glaciers around the Bernina pass; they have reduced dramatically over the 25 years I have been going there.”
With Porter responding that it’s ‘staggering’.
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While some make jokes about the difference being about the people in the image, one encouraged: "Take a look at this photo and really let it rest with you for a moment."