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Here’s a quote from NPR from 2/1/15 about the sounds glaciers
make:
"Oh, they moan and they groan," says Grant
Deane, a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography…” Deane is one
of the authors of a new study that interprets the acoustics of glacial melting.
"Yes, it's like they're speaking to us, but it's a
language that we don't yet understand well," he says.
How dense can we be? Has technology
turned us into unfeeling robots?
While modern society is in denial,
indigenous people understand this language all too well, feeling it all the way
down to their bones. With tears running down their
faces, mortified at their impotency, native peoples hear their mother, Gaia,
crying out in agony as we rend her limb from limb.
*Photograph is of
ice in Portsmouth harbor, broken apart into giant slabs and thrust up on Pierce Island by the tide.
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