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May 5, 2012

You Have to Look Closely at this Picture

Bill McKibben

Climate activists protest on Mt. Hood with banners reading "SO FEET & GLOBAL DEBRIS" and "SLID DOWN MT. HOOD". Group poses on ivy-covered building steps with red balloon, advocating for environmental action.

The distance between the sign at the top of the building and the sign at the bottom is 30 feet–which is the depth of the glacial debris after a devastating slide on nearby Mt. Hood when rain fell instead of snow at 10,000 feet. That’s former Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury with the big orange dot and students from Portland Community College holding the banners

Climate activists protest on Mt. Hood with banners reading "SO FEET & GLOBAL DEBRIS" and "SLID DOWN MT. HOOD". Group poses on ivy-covered building steps with red balloon, advocating for environmental action.