Friday, February 24, 2012
Winning documentary subject of 2010 Indy cover story
Posted by Skylar Browning on Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:15 PM
The article originally appeared in the Colorado Springs Independent and was republished by the Indy. In it, Balog talks about his dangerous and time-consuming work, and why he does it.
In my darker nights of despair, I ask myself, "Why are you putting yourself through this?" My answer is, that there's a voice in my head, and the voice is of my daughters—I've got an 8-year-old daughter and a 21-year-old daughter—and I fast-forward through time, and I imagine myself as an old man in a rocking chair, and I imagine them saying to me, "Dad, what were you doing 25 years ago when the climate was changing, when the world was coming apart? Were you paying attention? Was your society paying attention?"
- Courtesy of Extreme Ice Survey
- Balog at work
Now I can't speak for my society, but I can speak for me, and I want to be able to say to those kids, with a straight face, I saw what was happening, I knew what it meant, and I did the best that I could to communicate the reality of that.
Chasing Ice will screen again Sunday, Feb. 26 at 8:00 p.m. at the Wilma.
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