Why Art Matters in the Face of the Climate Crisis
How can we stop the world from burning? For many years, I responded to that question as an environmental advocate. In our fight against climate change, my colleagues and I employ Continue reading
Tag Archives: the anthropocene
The Urbicene
Kin la Belle, the Congolese call their capital, and I’ve looked for Kinshasa’s beauty. The Congo River, pulse of a planet, fifteen miles wide as it courses past? Abdim’s storks wheeling Continue reading
The Omnicene
Back in 1991, I pitched a different name for this time on Earth. That was the year before the Earth Summit in Rio produced the first climate treaty. I’d been reporting Continue reading
The Age of Stolen Salt
Salt is an ancestor. Older than ocean, old as stars. Salt flows through your saltwater body even now like blood, as blood. Salt is nonnegotiable, necessary for the working of every Continue reading
The Age of Acceleration
Wherever you train your attention for long enough, boundaries dissolve. And yet, if we define, as Earth systems scientists do, geological eras as stretches of time whose material markers trace through Continue reading