Climate Visionaries Artists’ Project with Lauren Groff
As we begin this critical new year in the fight against climate change, Greenpeace is giving over space on our channels to authors and artists working within the climate crisis. Acclaimed author Lauren Groff prompted artists and thinkers to write essays about art and climate change for us, and so every day this month we’ll have a new piece from that project that addresses, in some form, what it means to create in the midst of this crisis. The forces fueling climate change have the most powerful networks in history pumping out their devastating propaganda at unimaginable scale. It’s going to take everything we have from all of us — imagination equal to the task — to create the climate we’ll need to stop the crisis.
We need these voices and these visions, but they won’t be enough. We need you, too. We encourage you to check back every day to see what’s new, and to join the conversation by sharing your work on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram and tagging it #ClimateVisionaries.
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Lauren Groff and Nicole Sands on our Climate in Crisis
Lauren Groff is an acclaimed author and the editor of our #ClimateVisionaries Artists’ Series. Nicole Sands is the Deputy Digital Director of Greenpeace USA. Lauren prompted artists and thinkers to…
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil on our Climate in Crisis
Questions while searching for birds with my half-white sons, aged six and nine, National Audubon Bird Count Day, Oxford, MS If we are going to look for birds all day,…
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Emily Raboteau on our Climate in Crisis
Red in Tooth and Claw It is a strange feeling, as an urban dweller, to be watched by birds. My family lives in Washington Heights, at the highest point of…
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Sjón on our Climate in Crisis
p r o g r e s s the third and last night the stranger stayed with us she said as a warning: “on the other side of the…
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Leni Zumas on our Climate in Crisis
Navigable Waters I dream of scale: massive. Of laws: draconian. Of enforced regulations that alter human behaviors so radically the sea changes, and the sky, and the Earth. My dream…
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Min Jin Lee on our Climate in Crisis
“How many chances do we get each day to make a meaningful difference for Earth? Plenty, says environmental writer Tatiana Schlossberg. Can we eradicate ecodespair? With knowledge, context,…
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Dorothea Lasky on our Climate in Crisis
The Power Tree Be one with the future, is what they said to me So I sat under a tree I couldn’t see past the mountain Which hung…
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Helen Phillips on our Climate in Crisis
Drought #7 used to be snow here, everything white and firm and ice; then mud came peeking through, and, mesmerized by the novelty, we surrounded it, exclaiming, So this must…
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Nathaniel Rich on our Climate in Crisis
Global Warming: The Board Game Shortly after Jesse Ausubel became the first American to accept a full-time job devoted to preventing climate change, he found himself thinking about board games.…
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Camille T. Dungy on our Climate in Crisis
Camille T. Dungy is an award-winning author, professor, and editor. For the past few months, she and Greenpeace USA media director Travis Nichols have discussed poetry, climate change, and activism…
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John Moran on our Climate in Crisis
In the wake of Hurricane Michael Scientists have been telling us for many years that in the Age of the Anthropocene, our global carbon addiction will fuel a new breed…
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Travis Nichols on our Climate in Crisis
Meditations in an Emergency In the beginning, there was no beginning. In the end, there will be no end. Chonky little wavelets of misery and comfort expire into the air…
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Tom Hart on our Climate in Crisis
— As we begin this critical new year in the fight against climate change, Greenpeace is giving over space on our channels to authors and artists working within the climate…
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R.O. Kwon on our Climate in Crisis
Bridge Back when I was a child evangelist, I used to tell people, friends, in the attempt to save their souls, that all that stood between them and paradise was…
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Sarah True on our Climate in Crisis
I was inspired by the visuals of polar ice melting, a consequence of climate change that is happening in real time. I intended to capture a sense of abstraction, as…
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Eric Zencey and Kathryn Davis on our Climate in Crisis
The Climate Crisis Is Brought to You, In Part, By The Economics Profession, (which alone among disciplines with any pretense to analytic rigor, has steadfastly ignored the Second Law of…
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Jamie Quatro on our Climate in Crisis
Dénaturé Two weeks before Thanksgiving, my friend Alice and I have lunch. Alice immigrated to Quebec from France when she was eighteen, eventually marrying and settling in the U.S. in…
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Jenny Offill on our Climate in Crisis
Why I Write About Climate Change For a long time, I let my best friend worry it for the both of us. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe in it…
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Karen Russell on our Climate in Crisis
The Children of La Medusa The reef extends all the way around the island’s northern coastline, a flamboyant corset. Boned in fuchsia and scarlet and orange, heaving with living jewels.…
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Ada Limón on our Climate in Crisis
Salvage On the top of Mount Pisgah, on the western slope of the Mayacamas, there’s a madrone tree that’s half-burned from the fires, half-alive from nature’s need to propagate. One…
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Kaitlyn Greenidge on our Climate in Crisis
I always thought the world would end by the time I turned 30. It was a mantra that entered my head when I was in first or second grade, when…
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Lauren Groff on our Climate in Crisis
The church of my youth was antique and stern, shot through with light from the great stained-glass windows, its long plaster columns splitting when it reached the vast ceiling into…