Swiss Glacier Collapse Buries Alpine Village, Nearly 90% Destruction

[malaise]

Melting glaciers threaten to wipe out European villages - is the steep cost to protect them worth it?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4w9ggzxv4o

In a small village in Switzerland's beautiful Loetschental valley, Matthias Bellwald walks down the main street and is greeted every few steps by locals who smile or offer a handshake or friendly word.
Mr Bellwald is a mayor, but this isn't his village. Two months ago his home, three miles away in Blatten, was wiped off the map when part of the mountain and glacier collapsed into the valley.
The village's 300 residents had been evacuated days earlier, after geologists warned that the mountain was increasingly unstable. But they lost their homes, their church, their hotels and their farms.
Lukas Kalbermatten also lost the hotel that had been in his family for three generations."The feeling of the village, all the small alleys through the houses, the church, the memories you had when you played there as a child… all this is gone."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. The personal cost of climate change. It's horrifying.

My heart goes out to the former residents of this little, beautiful town.