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title: You Have to Look Closely at this Picture
date: 2012-05-05T15:32:56Z
modified: 2012-05-05T15:32:56Z
permalink: "https://350.org/you-have-look-closely-picture/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: "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"
wpid: 29286
author: Bill McKibben
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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

![](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7143966229_579a67b467_z.jpg)