A Tourist With An Umbrella Walks Through Art Installation In Front Of The Brandenburg Gate In Berlin
Date: 29-Oct-09
Country: GERMANY
Author: Pawel Kopczynski
A tourist with an umbrella walks through the art installation of 200 shoe-box sized tents symbolizes the dramatic consequences of climate change in developing countries in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin October 28, 2009.
According to Oxfam's calculations an estimated 26 million people had already left their homes because of climate change and the number of people affected by extreme droughts, storms or floods and other disastrous consequences of climate change, to grow in 2015 to about 375 million people.
The poster reads: "Fair climate protection missis Merkel - survival is not negotiable!
