Meltdown in Tibet
Michael Buckley | Tibet, China, Himalayan India, Bhutan, Nepal
Photographer: Michael Buckley
Exhibit Title: Meltdown in Tibet
Location: Tibet, China, Himalayan India, Bhutan, Nepal
The Tibetan Plateau is home to over 40,000 glaciers, with many of those underoing meltdown. These glaciers feed the river systems across Asia, with those rivers sustaining over a billion people downstream as well as agriculture and industry. What is being done to stall the meltdown of the glaciers? Virtually nothing. In fact, both China and India are heavily addicted to coal which causes a rain of black soot to hit the glaciers, thus accelerating the meltdown because black attracts more sun. On the major rivers sourced in Tibet, China is building megadam after megadam in the mistaken belief that this is clean and green and sustainable energy. Massive megadam reservoirs give off large amounts of Methane from rotten flooded vegetation. Methane is a greenhouse gas thought to be 30 times more potent than CO2.
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