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Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano had been dormant for nearly two centuries before
Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson, 51, flew to the scene on March 21 to photograph its first
stirrings. Mr. Sigurdson returned to the scene and made these dramatic photographs
last night and this morning.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/photographing-icelands-fiery-volcano/?th&emc=th
Like the ash cloud, the economic costs of this eruption are immense. The airlines, which estimate that they have lost about a billion dollars worldwide, are pressing officials to allow at least some flights to resume. For all that, the physical damage is minute, especially when compared with the recent earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and China. Luckily it has taken no lives.
What Eyjafjallajokull has done above all is force upon us a visceral awareness of our
interconnected world — woven together by the crisscrossing of airline routes. For all of
the talk of globalization, we see what a global construct our sense of normality really is.
Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson, 51, flew to the scene on March 21 to photograph its first
stirrings. Mr. Sigurdson returned to the scene and made these dramatic photographs
last night and this morning.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/photographing-icelands-fiery-volcano/?th&emc=th
Like the ash cloud, the economic costs of this eruption are immense. The airlines, which estimate that they have lost about a billion dollars worldwide, are pressing officials to allow at least some flights to resume. For all that, the physical damage is minute, especially when compared with the recent earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and China. Luckily it has taken no lives.
What Eyjafjallajokull has done above all is force upon us a visceral awareness of our
interconnected world — woven together by the crisscrossing of airline routes. For all of
the talk of globalization, we see what a global construct our sense of normality really is.
