The action, which was initiated by US photographer Spencer Tunick and the environmental protection agency Greenpeace, sought to establish a symbolic link between the vulnerability of the human body and that of the rapidly receding glaciers. According to the environmentalists the impact of the climate change brought on by humankind demands prompt and courageous decisions. The Aletsch Glacier, which is some 23 km long, lost around 115 metres of its total length between 2005 and 2006 alone. Forecasts indicate that most glaciers will have disappeared by 2080 unless radical measures to combat climate change are adopted swiftly and decisively.
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