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A Photo Essay for the #ClimateVisionaries Artists’ Project for Greenpeace<\/span>
Perhaps the monster hurricanes of the past three years\u2014Harvey, Irma, Maria, Florence, Michael, and Dorian\u2014are telling us that we are fundamentally altering the climate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

John Moran, Photographer and contributor to our #ClimateVisionaries Artists
John Moran, Photographer and contributor to our #ClimateVisionaries Artists’ Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the wake of Hurricane Michael\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Scientists have been telling us for many years<\/i><\/b> that in the Age of the Anthropocene, our global carbon addiction will fuel a new breed of superstorms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps the monster hurricanes of the past three years\u2014Harvey, Irma, Maria, Florence, Michael, and Dorian\u2014are telling us that we are fundamentally altering the climate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It appears a new normal may be upon us, and we could be in for a rough ride.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A week after Hurricane Michael made landfall in the Florida panhandle in October 2018, I went to Mexico Beach to see for myself a land transformed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With 160 mph winds and a 14-foot storm surge, the damage was, in a word, cataclysmic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Flying west from Apalachicola towards the path of the storm, I begin my picture report with a beauty shot of St. Joseph Peninsula. Seen from high above, it\u2019s easy to think of Florida as resilient.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was hard to imagine a Cat 5 hurricane blasted through here just a week earlier. But let\u2019s look more closely\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n

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<\/a>\u00a0prompted artists and thinkers to write essays and art about climate change for us, and so every day this month we\u2019ll 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\u2019s going to take everything we have from all of us \u2013 imagination equal to the task \u2013 to create the climate we\u2019ll need to stop the crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n

We need these voices and these visions, but they won\u2019t be enough. We need you, too. We encourage you to check back on the\u00a0Climate Visionaries Artists\u2019 Project<\/a>\u00a0every day to see what\u2019s new, and to join the conversation by sharing your work on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram and tagging it #ClimateVisionaries.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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