All these really clever systems we have come to depend on are so fragile and vulnerable.
If you read one thing today which makes you wonder if, really, we need to learn how to start canning our own food, use a mechanical timepiece, travel by horseback, and turn off the internet, this is it.
![[Glaciologist Matthias] Huss said scientists were increasingly seeing glaciers collapse from the inside – the result of internal streams beneath the ice that excavate caverns – rather than simply retreating from surface heat.
“You have huge holes like cheese in the middle of the ice that have collapsing roofs,” said Huss. “These are processes that tear the glaciers apart and make them retreat even faster.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlurodsarq33bckamhtncdps/bafkreiaxlni4p2amjvdzk3muygdnwb2pq5ha2ien2zo5hszlkzsiexlglm)
