Below zero

Once upon a time cold, snow and ice were a natural seasonal must. Thanks to global warming they have become a luxury. Scientists, thinkers, artists, architects and designers draw attention back to the virtues and the fascination of low temperatures and high altitude. From the water emergency to the ice one. All thanks to the global warming. The results given by the recent scientific research are worrying: the current level of carbon dioxide – enemy number one for the planet's climate – in the atmosphere have increased. Such as increase helps to increment the greenhouse effect contributing to rapid warming of the planet and the progressive reduction of icebergs on the Earth. This is affirmed by someone who knows ice very well, Reinhold Messner. A large part of Earth's fresh water reserves is stocked in ice form: this is one of the consideration that have been diffused to alert those who care about the planet Earth and would like to see a possible future for it. And from here, to “El mundo de hielo” exhibition, presented at Expo '08 in Saragossa in a pavilion shaped like an enormous block of ice. On the interior, videos and work to tell, using the language of art, about the fascinating and the splendor of a whole other world, and also to launch an s.o.s.. Like the one that comes through via the images of Sebastian Copeland, photographer and Global Green USA activist who after a long travel documentary in Antarctic, will participate in the Pax Artica project to bring the situation of the Arctic Polar Circle to everyone's attention and stop the progressive exploitation of it that is changing the fragile ecosystem.