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Antarctica

Antarctica

The Global Warning

by Sebastian Copeland
Hardback
Publication Date: 28/09/2007

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Antarctica's environment today isa microcosm of the wold environment's future: as endangered creatures, such as the chinstrap penguins, humpback whales, and albatrosses continue to face extinction, research scientists have concluded that this icy ecosystem serves as a final warning of impending environmental deterioration. Sebastian Copeland's photographshave captured both the incredible beauty of the continent and the devastation that climate changes have wreaked on it. His data, photographs, and conclusions along with contributions from Will Steger, David De Rothschild, Stephen Schneider, Zac Goldsmith, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Leonardo DiCaprio bring to readers with insight and urgencythe momentous reality of the not so distant future with insight and urgency."
ISBN:
9781933784199
9781933784199
Category:
Travel & holiday
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
28-09-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Mandala Publishing
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
342.9x228.6x27.43mm
Weight:
2.06kg
Sebastian Copeland

In 2017, Sebastian Copeland was named one of 25 of the world's top adventurers of the last 25 years. With approximately 5,000 miles under his skis in the polar regions, Copeland has led numerous expeditions to document the endangered ice, reaching both North and South Poles on foot. Noted as a photographer "who has produced works that are of outstanding artistic merit and communicate messages of urgent global significance," Copeland was twice named Photographer of the Year, in 2007 (IPA) and 2016 (TIFA).

Copeland has addressed audiences at the UN, governments, universities, and many Fortune 500 companies warning of the systemic transformations taking place in the polar regions and their geopolitical consequences. In 2019, Copeland was knighted by French President Emmanuel Macron in the National Order of Merit. He is a fellow of The Explorers Club and spent 15 years on the Board of President Gorbachev's NGO Global Green USA.

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