By Natalia Galbetti, Source: Ecorazzi

Desperate times call for desperate measures, so a man has decided to go live on a melting iceberg for 12 months to document how urgent the issue of climate change is.

“I came to a point in my life where I feel the urge to act. To do something,” explains Alex Bellini, the Italian adventurer who will take on the challenge of living off the coast of Greenland for a whole year in a video about his mission. “I rowed across two oceans, I crossed the vastness of Alaska, the Sahara desert. I want, I dream one day of reaching the North Pole, the South Pole and I wish my daughters and my daughters’ daughters can have the same possibility. So for me, now is the time to act.”

Bellini has named his project ‘Adrift 2015’ since it will be on the spring of 2015 that he will find an iceberg to call home. As he said in a recent interview, however, there’s also a deeper meaning to the title.

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