Venezuela “will soon be the first country to run out of glaciers due to climate change,” according to Inparques.
On their website they explain that this will occur as a result of climate change.
They also point out that the Sierra Nevada of Venezuela had several glaciers that formed a continuous mass of ice. However, as a result of climate change, largely affected by human activity, these glaciers have been fragmenting until they remain three great peaks: The Bolivar, Concha and Humboldt.
“Currently, only Pico Humboldt remains, which is also about to disappear, making Venezuela the first country in the South -and possibly on the planet- to run out of a glacier,” they point out.
Regarding this peak, inparks It stands out that in 1910 it covered an area of 337 hectares, of which only four hectares remain today. This means that its loss is equivalent to 99% of its surface in the last 100 years․
As for the causes, experts point to the increase in temperatures as an accelerator of the consequences of a new climate change. However, they also highlight that some human behaviors, such as the dependence on fossil fuels on a global scale and deforestation, make the situation worse.
“In the case of Venezuela, I think there is nothing to do anymore․ But in the case of Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru, they are still on time․ There has to be a change in the patterns of energy use in all the countries of the world․ If today we begin to change our economies with a more efficient and intelligent climate vision, we will have a positive effect on not having to run out of glaciers”, explained Luis Daniel Llambí, ecologist and professor at the Institute of Environmental and Ecological Sciences of the University of the Andes (ULA).
