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Copenhagen Issues Climate Gate Art Works to Prostitutes
SCULPTOR Jens Galschioet has highlighted the end of the world being nigh by hanging flashing red lights seven metres up in trees and on lamp posts in Copenhagen.
For the prostitutes? No. this is to show one and all how high the waters will get when Greenland’s ice melts. Architect Ole Oerslev works it out:
“Technically and pedagogically it is a sound idea. The problem is that they are hanging at incorrect heights by the city lakes, where they currently sit at 11,34 metres.”
The lakes of Copenhagen are 5,89 metres above sea level. A quick calculation and the lights should be placed 69 centimetres above the ground.
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