We follow our daily chores in this society based on a system that is consuming natural resources by leaps and bounds that we can hardly measure the wear and tear it produces. Explodes disproportion in balance with nature and the planet, we do not even know the consequences they will have in the long, medium or, as we can now know, short term.
A gigantic fissure in the Antarctic ice sheet has increased by 20 kilometers in the last 6 months, which could take off an area of 6.381 square kilometers, little less than the province of Madrid, for example.
Images from the Larsen C ice shelf captured by the Terra satellite NASA shows a line that is now 128 kilometers long, according to a report from the US aerospace agency. A portion of the ice sheet, the fourth largest on the continent, could break off.
Scientists are working to understand the immediate changes that the great rift would create and what has led it to increase in length so rapidly. Project MIDAS, a UK group dedicated to study of the Larsen C ice shelf, indicates that climate change has changed the structure of the ice, which could contribute to the possibility of a total collapse.
The Larsen B ice shelf collapsed as early as 2002 and has weakened in recent years. Scientists studying Antarctica hope that breaks definitively in less than a decade.
There is not much to think about the consequences of an ice sheet of gigantic proportions breaking off and it is the reason for know the effects of climate change all over the planet. A balance that ensures that life continues placidly, but with the effect of the hand of man ...