Giant Postcard Covers Endangered Aletsch Glacier

Climate change is impacting the word. Kids are taking action against it.

Image 1. A postcard of approximately 2,500 square meters, made of contributions from more than 125,000 individual postcards containing messages aiming to combat climate change, is pictured on the Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland, November 16, 2018. Photo by: Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP

A postcard approximately 2,500 square meters

Kids across the world have expressed their concern about climate change by making the world's biggest postcard on a glacier in the Swiss Alps. Over 125,000 kids have put in work to make handwritten postcards to make one big postcard, the size of half a football field.

The Aletsch Glacier is in trouble. It is melting and will be non-existent by the end of this century if carbon levels continue to grow the way they are right now and the glacier could lose 90% of its ice volume.

Aletsch Glacier

The postcard has messages from kids to fight climate change and help the environment. From a birdseye view the postcard says "stop global warming" and "#1.5C". "#1.5C" means a hope to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Organisers are hoping to launch a "Global Climate Change Youth Movement" this month.

Image 2. Visitors to the giant postcard stand near a hashtag and a message to stop global warming. Photo by: Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP [click to expand]

Visitors for the postcard stand near the hashtag

Image 3. Photo by: Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP [click to expand]

Bird's eye view of the giant postcard

I think it's amazing that kids around the world are doing this. They put hard work and time into making the postcards. The kids know why they are making these postcards and they know what is happening in the world. I think everyone should know why climate change is happening and how they can help. We can help lower global warming by driving electric cars or just walking to where they can. Sometimes small things like this can make a big impact.

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https://newsela.com/read/kids-postcards-glacier/id/47592/

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