environment is the future's enigma.

Nothing threatens nature-nothing threatens its continuity and strength-except for one tiny organism. No other organism has caused the immense destruction that humankind has inflicted upon nature. In this book, Andre Snar Magnusson tells the story of nature, the environment, water, rivers, and humanity. He recounts the tale of Iceland's rivers, around which Scandinavian legends and myths have been woven, and of the towering mountains from which rivers spring, flowing from their peaks for hundreds, even thousands, of years, untouched, until humankind began to discover its new power: the Industrial Revolution. From this point in history, the story takes a different turn, leading us to Tibet and its sacred rivers, which are gradually drying up, and to global warming, which is causing the Arctic ice to melt and lakes that have remained frozen for centuries to return to their liquid state, and to the rising sea levels and the threat they pose of floods and the submergence of many cities. Then, Magnusson predicts the future, attempting to guess what life will be like for our children a hundred years from now. Will they find potable water? Or will the seas and their salt waters prevail over the Earth? Or will the blue planet cease to be so, turning yellow or some other color than the one that has defined it since its creation?This book is a journey chronicling the life of glaciers and their transformations from one hundred years ago to one hundred years into the future.