The Anthropocene is marked not only by significant environmental changes massively distributed in space and time but also by a substantial proliferation of scientific data. From Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports to growing extinction lists, there is neither a shortage of environmental crises nor data to serve as official evidence of crises. As crucial as these data are, however, questions remain as to how science data-driven approaches police the boundaries of what counts as evidence and risk marginalizing other ways of encountering, knowing, and narrating environmental change. In this article, we address how certain narratives are not being told, or heard, amid European-American climate discourses. Drawing on nature–society studies, political ecology, and environmental philosophy, this article focuses on how prevailing discussions around glacier recession ignore the cultural and conceptual consequences of glacier loss. As glaciers become increasingly iconized in the Anthropocene, they become more detached from cultural and conceptual contexts. Such detachment overlooks how the fate of glaciers is not only a matter of quantifiable loss but is also implicated in everyday encounters, generational experiences, and stories spun at the nexus of ice and culture(s).

人类世不仅以在时空上大规模分布的重大环境变化为标志，而且还以科学数据的大量扩散为标志。从政府间气候变化专门委员会的报告到越来越多的灭绝清单，既不缺乏环境危机，也没有数据可以作为危机的官方证据。然而，尽管这些数据至关重要，但仍然存在以下问题，即科学数据驱动的方法如何监管作为证据的边界，并可能使其他接触，了解和描述环境变化的方式处于边缘地位。在本文中，我们将探讨在欧美气候讨论中如何不对某些叙述进行讲述或听取。借鉴自然社会研究，政治生态学和环境哲学，本文重点讨论围绕冰川衰退的主流讨论如何忽略冰川丧失的文化和概念后果。随着人类世间冰川的图标化程度越来越高，它们与文化和概念环境越来越脱节。这样的分离忽视了冰川的命运不仅是数量可量化的问题，而且还牵涉到日常的遭遇，世代相传的经历以及在冰与文化之间交织的故事。