It’s Too Hot!
A 14-year photographic journey among the consequences of climate change
Famine in Ethiopia and hurricanes in the United States. Landslides in Italy and rising seas in Polynesia. The reduction of polar bear habitats in Canada and desertification advancing in northeastern Brazil. These are all consequences of global warming, i.e., the inexorable rise in temperatures on earth due to a series of interlinked events: the high consumption of fossil fuels (especially since the 1950s) that has produced large CO2 emissions and that in turn have generated increased heat in the earth’s atmosphere.
An anthropogenic greenhouse effect that has already led to disturbing records: the years between 2009 and 2019 were the hottest decade ever recorded on Earth while 2022 one of the hottest years ever. The consequences? Many are already visible; others we will discover in the coming decades. Some of these can be captured in a 14-year-long photographic journey, which the author undertook as he tried to tell small stories, pieces scattered around the globe: individual chapters of a global and epochal change.
(2008-2021)
