The six-time Grammy-winning musician Jacob Collier has performed a gig on an iceberg to promote ocean and climate protection.
The 30-year-old British singer-songwriter teamed up with AURORA, the Norwegian alt-pop superstar for this truly unique performance.
The two musicians braved the arctic temperatures to perform a mashup of their two songs A Rock Somewhere and The Seed.
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In the video, the two stars take to a floating stage amidst icebergs to sing in front of the imposing glacier, Sveabreen.
The performance was a rallying cry to highlight the urgent need for the world to protect the oceans and put a stop to deep sea mining.
Acidification, climate change, industrial fishing and pollution are a few of the many threats our oceans face.
These issues have forced marine ecosystems to be on the brink of collapse, with companies now wanting to harvest the deep sea for profit.
The Norwegian government is now putting in plans for commercial mining to take place in the Arctic.
The two stars teamed up with Greenpeace International, who helped deliver the performance from the organisation’s ship Arctic Sunrise.
Across the world, 32 countries currently support a moratorium, precautionary pause or ban on deep-sea mining, as reported by Need To Know.
Google, Samsung, Apple, Volvo and BMW along with 53 other companies have publicly committed to not sourcing materials mined from the deep sea.
Collier said: “The moment I heard about an opportunity to jump aboard one of the legendary Greenpeace ships, head to Arctic waters, and sing a song with one of my favourite artists next to a mighty glacier, I knew I was signing up for something special.
“What I hadn’t foreseen was quite how transformative and moving the experience would be, and how much it would teach me – musically, energetically and environmentally.
“I was bowled over at the sheer magnitude of the Arctic – and also its deep fragility. We’ve lost two thirds of all the Arctic summer ice in the last forty years.
“It’s a shadow of its former self – yet it’s not too late for us to help.
“We are all creatures of the Earth, and rely so deeply upon its health for our own.
“The oceans are our primary ally in preventing truly disastrous consequences of climate change from taking hold.
“The impact of deep sea mining is too disastrous to mention – we urgently must protect the world’s oceans – and act NOW before it’s too late.”
AURORA said: “We need to understand, the more we interfere with, or the more we violate, nature we will have a lesser chance to survive the consequences of our actions.
“We already know the large impact every choice we’ve made so far has had on the health of this planet. And therefore the health of every life that lives on it.
“I don’t understand why we cannot let things be. Our curiosity has turned sour, and now I feel like we’re only looking to dominate – take the land, take everything it has to offer before anyone else does it.
“We compete with each other as nations but we forget the one thing we all have in common. If we keep interfering with the few untouched areas of this Earth, there will be no future.
“We have to stop deep sea mining. I hope our Prime Minister and the other world leaders will do what is right. Not for them, but for the children of the children.”
Dr Laura Meller, Greenpeace Nordic, said: “Hearing AURORA and Jacob’s eerily beautiful voices echo around the glacier and the icebergs was such a reminder of the fragility of our planet, and why we work so hard to protect it.
“Centuries of human extraction have pushed ocean ecosystems to the brink of collapse.
“We won a historic Global Ocean Treaty last year, which keeps our goal of protecting 30 percent of the world’s oceans by 2030 alive. But governments now want to mine the deep. We won’t let that happen.
“We hope this collaboration will inspire millions of people around the world to join our mission to protect the oceans for future generations.
“We still have time, but governments must act now. They must protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 and introduce a moratorium on deep sea mining.”
