Repost This ArticleMAYBE CLIMATE CHANGE can really only be understood by seeing it first hand.
In their travels around the world, Matador’s editors have witnessed the effects of climate change with their own eyes. Today, in recognition of Blog Action Day, Matador editors Lola Akinmade and Hal Amen posted dispatches about climate change issues in Nigeria and Bolivia.
Photo: Lola Akinmade
Matador Goods editor Lola Akinmade examines this image, explaining how global poverty and climate change are inextricably linked. Click here to read the full article, “The Scarcity of Breath.”
Photo: scropy
Matador Trips editor Hal Amen reports on why a receding, melting glacier matters to a community in Bolivia. Click here to read about “los pobres dying of thirst. Just one consequence among countless others of climate change.”
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Julie Schwietert
Julie Schwietert Collazo is a writer, editor, researcher, and translator currently in New York, formerly of Mexico City and San Juan. She is Matador's managing editor and is the lead faculty member of MatadorU's travel writing program.
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Great pictures and thought-provoking posts
Thanks for the links, Julie. Seems like this has been a successful action day. I’ve seen references to it all over the place.