
Testing the Sea Ice
Images of melting ice and snow have become iconic of climate change. Arctic sea ice is not a local or familiar terrain for most people, so it is unlikely to connect with their everyday lives, but showing "experts" interacting and working in the situation is an effective way to bridge the gap between a distant impact and the viewer.
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WHAT IT SHOWS: Testing the ice next to the icebreaker before disembarking.
Photo by
Kenneth Mankoff (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Principles:
Show 'real people', not staged photo-ops