People Are Having Funerals For The World's Melting Glaciers. Could It Mobilize Further Climate Action?

People Are Having Funerals For The World's Melting Glaciers. Could It Mobilize Further Climate Action?

People Are Having Funerals For The World's Melting Glaciers. Could It Mobilize Further Climate Action? Glaciers around the world are melting so quickly that the scale of the loss is difficult to comprehend. Death, on the other hand, is a universal experience, familiar across all cultures. To bridge that gap, anthropologists Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe of Rice University are drawing parallels between human death rituals and the disappearance of glaciers, offering people a more tangible way to understand what’s being lost. They’ve held funerals for glaciers, built a temporary glacier graveyard with headstones carved from ice, and launched the Global Glacier Casualty List — an online archive of stories and images documenting disappearing ice from the Alps to the Andes. Yale Climate Connections spoke with the project’s creators about why memorializing glaciers matters and how these stories can inspire action. This interview has been edited. Yale Climate Connections : Why is it important …