It’s Too Late to Compromise on Climate

This used to be the site of one of the highest glaciers in South America. Photo by Jimmie Giles.

That is the question the New York Times mooted regarding the fate of El Alto, Bolivia, a large suburb of the capital, La Paz. Residents of metropolitan La Paz had long depended on the melting glaciers ringing their city to supply drinking water- but now that these glaciers are disappearing, the very lives of residents of the La Paz metropolis are at risk.

source: http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/its-too-late-to-compromise-on-climate