Polar bears, burning forests, and billowing smokestacks are the most common stock images to accompany articles about climate change. But the scope of the crisis is much broader and more nuanced than cute Arctic creatures or doomsday hellscapes.
Two efforts introduced at the recent TED Countdown conference on the environment seeks to improve the pool of imagery for these stories and, in effect, bring people a global picture of the climate change emergency. They’ve arrived just in time for media coverage of the UN’s upcoming COP26 meeting in Glasgow, where government representatives from around the world will negotiate a coordinated response to climate change.
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