Editorial: Liberation

• The story of British tourist Duncan Porter and his drastically different holiday pictures from 2009 to 2024 display visible effects of climate change.
• The Rhône glacier, the backdrop of the picture, has suffered from global warming, losing 17% of its mass between 2009 and 2024.
• The consequences of global warming are evident: a thousand tiny glaciers have disappeared from the Swiss Alps in just a few decades.
• In France too, the scenario is equally worrisome with hundreds of glaciers due to disappear in the next twenty-five years.

Conclusion: Porter's story is a stark illustration of climate change and has become a powerful, emotive wake-up call against the climate crisis.

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