Women documenting climate change in pictures

女性用照片记录气候变化

The Conversation

社会与文化

2024-02-19

27 分钟
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Beatriz De La Pava Hucke talks to two women telling the stories of communities threatened by the environmental impact of rising seas, flood damage and increasing temperatures. They're using photography, poetry and literature to express the realities of climate change in communities around the world. Arati Kumar-Rao is a National Geographic Explorer, environmental photographer, writer and artist. She chronicles the changes in landscape caused by climate change, and she’s currently reporting on human migration in India. Her book is called Marginlands. Professor Christina Gerhardt founded the Environmental Humanities Institute at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. She's written a book called Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean. It covers 49 islands, islets and atolls, from the Artic to the Antarctic, that are most threatened by rising sea levels. It looks at their history and culture with testimony, poetry and literature from the islanders themselves showing a defiant sense of hope, often against all odds. Produced by Jane Thurlow (Image: (L) Christina Gerhardt, courtesy of Christina Gerhardt. (R) Arati Kumar-Rao, courtesy of Arati Kumar-Rao.)
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  • Hello.

  • Welcome to the conversation, the program that takes you around the world through the stories of extraordinary women.

  • I am Beatrice de la Pawae.

  • Today I'm talking to two women who've written books about the impact of climate change using art, poetry and the stories of individuals.

  • Aarti Kumarau is a national geographic explorer, environmental photographer, writer and artist.

  • She chronicles the changes in landscape caused by climate change and is currently reporting on human migration in India.

  • Professor Christina Gerhard founded the Environmental Humanities Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

  • Shes written a book called Sea an Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean, which looks at 49 islands and atolls from the Arctic to the Antarctic most threatened by rising sea levels.

  • Using testimonies, poetry and literature from the islanders.

  • Aarti.

  • Christina, welcome to the conversation.

  • Thank you for having us.

  • Great to be here.

  • Much of the information we get about climate change and the environmental damage it is causing is represented by facts and figures.