2. Mount Kilimanjaro • Tanzania

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undergo profound changes within the next few generations.

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Simply by drawing attention to the beauty of these places, 100 Places to
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The 100 Places we have chosen to highlight, and the people who
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White Snows in the House of God

When Ernest Hemingways novel The Snows of Kilimanjaro was published in 1936, it made the snow-capped East African mountain famous and turned it into a legend.

For the local Masai tribes living on the plains beneath it, the mountain had already been a living legend for centuries. To them, it is Ngàja Ngái The House of God.

Seen from the plains below, Kilimanjaros peak emerges from a ring of fog and cloud that shrouds its forest-covered lower slopes. When Hemingway first described the mountain, its snow-cap was already melting slowly. Between 1912 and 2003, climate change led to the loss of about 80% of its ice fields, and the remainder of the snow-cap is expected to disappear by 2020.

In itself, the loss of the snow on top of Kilimanjaro will have a limited effect on the ecosystem, as it feeds only a few minor brooks. However, the symbolic effect will be enormous, as an illustration of the speed at which the global climate is changing.

Further down the mountain, the heavy clouds whose vapour and precipitation irrigate the Cloud Forests and feed the rivers have already diminished, due to the rise in temperatures and decrease in atmospheric moisture. This trend is projected to continue and has already increased the frequency of forest fires.

Combined with human-induced deforestation, it will further reduce precipitation. This would have a devastating effect on the woodland, as well as the water supply for the million people of the Chagga and Masai tribes who inhabit the flanks of Kilimanjaro.

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[FanOfStephenKing]

@ItsBuckful Ok then, list those reasons, and we'll see.

[ItsBuckful]

@FanOfStephenKing Wrong, thats not the ONLY reason. Its one reason, upon many more.

[trancemang]

@Bedouin7 There is NO link between science & religion.

Science is universal, religion is personnal. Keep it personnal.

Stop messing Allah/God/Buddha/whoever you want with facts.

[FanOfStephenKing]

@ 100PlacesToRemember The only reason why the snow cap of Mt. Kilminjaro is melting is because of deforestation. The rain forest at the base of the moutain has been cut down, so the air blowing upward is no longer moist. If the forest is replanted the glaciers will grow again.

[SupaDupaFunTime]

@TheBedouin7 alright. im not against muslims. but shut the fuck up, its science you need to care about here....its global warming, not the relationship you have with allah....

[brathurx]

@TheBedouin7 lol, allah. like religion isn't the reason for humans behaving like shit.

[TheBedouin7]

Unless humans stop committing sins and rediscover their Creator (Allah) the world shall continue to experience these changes. Not only Mount Kilimanjaro. Believe it or not let us re-access and correct our relationship with Allah or else the repercurssions are not far from near.

[dinmore123456]

@sabashsabash they have the solutions on there web page?

[ThePoltergueist]

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[spamstoper3]

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