Megan McGee: Chasing Ice Response

Chasing Ice was a film that caught my attention from the very beginning. James Balog's journey depicted global warming in a realistic and riveting way. By taking and showing the photographs of particular glaciers throughout a relatively small time period, Balog was able to capture how drastically our earth’s climate is changing. I was shocked to see glaciers the size of five football fields shrink to a few yards. Even James Balog and his EIC team couldn’t believe that they were looking at the same glacier that once was so prominent. Another fact that struck me was that animals and plant species are going extinct at a faster rate than ever before. By putting toxins into the air that we breathe, we are literally changing the climate of our earth and affecting everything that lives on it. In the film, Balog mentioned that the temperature change is small from year to year, but even this small change is having such a large impact on our world. By looking at the receding glaciers, it should give everyone as human beings a sense of how we are affecting our planet. The purpose of this film was to make a global impact and realization and I believe that anyone who sees this film will be moved to take action.