In this beautiful Nature Conservancy Preserve we saw Texas longhorns grazing in the late afternoon sun. It made me sad to see what we expect to happen to this area, but also it gave me a sense of resolve (Luke Parsons, Salt Lake City UT)My favorite part of the Wind River Range is disappearing before my eyes. I stare intently at the shifting landscape, trying to imprint the already fading image in my memory. I had not expected the emotional toll of this climb to match the physical toll. (Luke Parsons, Salt Lake City UT)
One image. One or two sentences. That's all.
A photograph, a video, a song — whatever captures a moment when climate change stopped being abstract and became something you actually felt.
Most of us carry these feelings alone. We don't have a language for them yet. That matters — because what we can't say, we can't share. And what we can't share, we can't act on together.
It doesn't have to be well written. It doesn't have to be resolved. It just has to be true.
Your contribution can appear under your full name, your initials and city, your city only, or anonymously.
The flood canceled the last day of the state fair. It felt unreal—I’d never seen anything like that. (Wyatt Johnson, Milwaukee, WI)I have never flown as much as since I started working on a climate-related project. Jean Peccoud (Louisville CO)In 2020, during the Cameron Peak Fire, I wondered how long it would take before I lose my house to climate change. Jean P. (Fort Collins, CO)Seeing the first glacier I ever set foot on vanish behind the ridgeline makes me extremely sad. Anonymous (Grenoble, France)
This song tells the story of how climate change brought us to extinction; it feels like today. Denis (Paris, France)
