The Waters Around You Have Grown
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When Bob Dylan penned the lyrics to his 1964 release, The Times They are A-Changin’, he encouraged us to
gather ’round people, wherever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown.
Since Dylan recorded these lyrics in 1963, Peru’s Qori Kalis glacier has shrunk by 10 percent and the ice cap atop Mount Kenya has decreased in size by 40 percent. The Artic ice cap, not to be outdone, has accelerated its own melting; a gloomy prediction once forecasted its demise by 2050. In May 2007, that prediction was revised to 2020.It took over 40 years and some tremendously powerful imagery, but we’ve finally admitted that the waters, indeed, have grown.
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