Chasing Ice, By James Balog
Environment plays an important part in humans’ lives that it contributes in many aspects of our daily activities. However, with the constant growth of improvements in industries and other convenient yet harmful technological advancements, the environment is being severely damaged. Humans, yet, remain ignorant on the issues since we cannot witness the immediate impact of our degrading conditions of nature and its resources. The movie, Chasing Ice, a contemporary documentary, is a vivid depiction of the weakened and vitiated environment of the twenty-first century, through the dramatic lens and images of National Geographic’s photographer, James Balog. Being a talented photographer with various albums captured to advocate environmental protection
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The cameras were not secured enough to maintain the steady work while coping with the rough surroundings. Damaged cameras are found during monthly checks with numerous failures such as battery explosion, snow-burial due to voltage regulator issues. The EIS has to ultimately change the technology used in these devices and waits until another season comes to continue their work. Meanwhile, environmental problems are still being published to seek attention from viewers in publics and communities. It is reported that Earth has lost 20% of its forest area, suffered extended length of wildfire, changing landscape and increasing rate of thawing ice as well as droughts and storms during the last twenty years with information gathered from reports of 1980 – 2010. However, these statistics are not convincing enough in comparison to Balog’s photographic evidences. Overcoming the adverse result of his knee surgery, Balog manages to finale the work of the EIS and convey its empowered capability of assurance and persuasion to the people. One of Balog’s most important findings in the collection of his icy photographs is the alerted recognition of a black substance, a combination of dust and carbon particles from Sahara dessert and human industrial bi-products, that greatly absorbs the sun heat, lowers the albedo of ice, causing it to calve nine miles in the last ten years. Consequently, this
The cameras were not secured enough to maintain the steady work while coping with the rough surroundings. Damaged cameras are found during monthly checks with numerous failures such as battery explosion, snow-burial due to voltage regulator issues. The EIS has to ultimately change the technology used in these devices and waits until another season comes to continue their work. Meanwhile, environmental problems are still being published to seek attention from viewers in publics and communities. It is reported that Earth has lost 20% of its forest area, suffered extended length of wildfire, changing landscape and increasing rate of thawing ice as well as droughts and storms during the last twenty years with information gathered from reports of 1980 – 2010. However, these statistics are not convincing enough in comparison to Balog’s photographic evidences. Overcoming the adverse result of his knee surgery, Balog manages to finale the work of the EIS and convey its empowered capability of assurance and persuasion to the people. One of Balog’s most important findings in the collection of his icy photographs is the alerted recognition of a black substance, a combination of dust and carbon particles from Sahara dessert and human industrial bi-products, that greatly absorbs the sun heat, lowers the albedo of ice, causing it to calve nine miles in the last ten years. Consequently, this