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Tunick, standing atop a ladder and armed with a megaphone, directed nearly 600 volunteers to pose in various positions and locations on and around the glacier, which is the largest in Europe. “The human body is as vulnerable as the melting glacier,” Markus Allemann, campaign coordinator for Greenpeace Switzerland, said at the event. “These replica Omega 95 1297.15 watch naked people are braving the cold today because they want decision-makers to wake up and take immediate, forceful, and courageous steps to protect the climate.”Aletsch glacier, in the Swiss Alps, retreated by 377 feet in a single year between 2005 and 2006, and its retreat is emblematic of most of Switzerland’s 1,800 glaciers.
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