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For days, Beijing has been trapped under a blanket of yellow-brown dust that the U.S. Embassy air monitor classifies, in its hourly reading, " hazardous."(1)____ Living under Beijing skies, one has come to expect an incremental uptick in the number of officially declared "blue sky" day each year.(2)____
Nearly two years after the world failed to achieve a decisive climate change deal in Copenhagen, and we' ve become used to many of what we read about the human effects of carbon emissions.(3)____(4)____ Orville Schell, the author and the journalist who heads the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, has written repeated about the need for global cooperation on climate change.(5)____(6)____ "As a writer, I felt that what I wrote had limited effect," he told me recently, "so we decided to try a different approach: Let's do it in a visual way."
The results are in display now at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing, and, with luck, it will be near you soon.(7)____(8)____ "Coal + Ice" is a documentary exhibition encompassing works by thirty photographers around the world.(9)____ It seeks to doing something unprecedented: to chart the horrific grandeur of our effects on the planet, from the coal mines beneath our feet to the dwindling glaciers on our highest mountains.(10)____ The images chosen by curators Jeroen de Vries and Susan Meiselas describe a spectrum that is vast in aesthetics and geography.
