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For days, Beijing has been trapped under a blanket of
yellow-brown dust that the U.S. Embassy air monitor classifies, in
its hourly reading, " hazardous." Living under Beijing skies, one 1
has come to expect an incremental uptick in the number
of officially declared "blue sky" day each year. 2
Nearly two years after the world failed to achieve a decisive
climate change deal in Copenhagen, and we" ve become used to 3
many of what we read about the human effects of carbon 4
emissions. Orville Schell, the author and the journalist who heads 5
the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, has written
repeated about the need for global cooperation on climate change. 6
"As a writer, I felt that what I wrote had limited effect," he told me
recently, "so we decided to try a different approach: Let"s do it in a
visual way."
The results are in display now at the Three Shadows 7
Photography Art Centre in Beijing, and, with luck, it will be near 8
you soon. "Coal + Ice" is a documentary exhibition
encompassing works by thirty photographers around the world. 9
It seeks to doing something unprecedented: to chart the horrific 10
grandeur of our effects on the planet, from the coal mines beneath
our feet to the dwindling glaciers on our highest mountains. The
images chosen by curators Jeroen de Vries and Susan Meiselas
describe a spectrum that is vast in aesthetics and geography.