‘Every glacier lost reflects our inaction.’ – Olafur.⁠ ⁠ In 2019, scientists and activists gathered at the base of the Icelandic glacier Ököküdl (Ok) to mourn its loss caused due to global warming. ⁠ ⁠ ‘Okjökull...was small and young when it died; ice covered the mountaintop for only a few centuries. [Oddur] Sigurðsson knows this because he had counted the glacier’s rings, which were formed by dust each year—not unlike the rings on a tree. The rings contained a sort of memory—a record of pollen clouds, volcanic eruptions, world wars, and nuclear meltdowns. When a glacier melts, Sigurðsson explained, its memory disappears.⁠ ⁠ It is unusual for a glaciologist to fill out a death certificate, but something concrete, like a piece of paper or a plaque, helps to make clear that the loss is irreversible.’ - New Yorker. ⁠ ⁠ For Ok, writer and poet Andri Snær Magnason (@andrimagnason) wrote a text on a plaque installed at the site of the melted glacier in Iceland. ⁠ ⁠ ‘A letter to the future – Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415 ppm CO2.’⁠ ⁠ Sources: @newyorker and Good Trouble magazine. ⁠ ⁠ Images: Photo of Ok, photograph by Olafur, 2019. ⁠ Photo of the plaque: photograph by Jeremie Richard/AFP/Getty Images.