Studying Climate Change through Salon Photography and Art Museum Holdings
The Peter Fetterman Gallery features interesting virtual tours of exhibitions of interest to climate change students. This gallery holds many photographers' works valuable to exploring the impact of climate on human and animal habitats.
<<Sebastião Salgado, one of the most prominent photographers can help individuals see the impact of climate change on all beings and landscapes.
Salgado was born on February 8th, 1944 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Having studied economics, Salgado began his career as a professional photographer in 1973 in Paris, working with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos until 1994, when he and Lélia Wanick Salgado formed Amazonas images, an agency created exclusively for his work. He has travelled in over 100 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these, besides appearing in numerous press publications, have also been presented in books such as Other Americas (1986), Sahel: l’homme en détresse (1986), Sahel: el fin del camino (1988), Workers (1993), Terra (1997), Migrations and Portraits (2000), and Africa (2007). Touring exhibitions of this work have been, and continue to be, presented throughout the world.
"I have named this project GENESIS because my aim is to return to the beginnings of our planet: to the air, water and the fire that gave birth to life, to the animal species that have resisted domestication, to the remote tribes whose 'primitive' way of life is still untouched, to the existing examples of the earliest forms of human settlement and organization. A potential path towards humanity's rediscovery of itself. So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence. And then we can understand what we must preserve." —Sebastião Salgado>>
Peter Fetterman Gallery
https://www.peterfetterman.com/
Born in London, Peter Fetterman has been deeply involved in the medium of photography for over 40 years. Initially a filmmaker and collector, he set up his first gallery over 30 years ago in 1988. He was one of the pioneer tenants of Bergamot Station, the Santa Monica Center of the Arts, when it first opened in 1994.
The gallery has one of the largest inventories of classic 20th Century photography in the country particularly in humanist photography. Diverse holdings include work by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Steve McCurry, Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro, Willy Ronis, André Kertesz, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lillian Bassman, Pentti Sammallahti, Sarah Moon and Jeffrey Conley.
Peter and his colleagues are committed to promoting the awareness and appreciation of the most powerful of the mediums in an intimate, user-friendly salon environment.
Hawaii agrees to 'groundbreaking' settlement of youth climate change case
By Nate Raymond
June 20, 202411:05 PM EDT
<<Hawaii on Thursday, June 20, 2024, agreed to take action to decarbonize its transportation system by 2045 to settle a lawsuit by 13 young people alleging the U.S. state was violating their rights under its constitution with infrastructure that contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
Democratic Governor Josh Green announced the "groundbreaking" settlement at a news conference attended by some of the activists and lawyers involved in the lawsuit, which they called the first-ever youth-led climate case seeking zero emissions in transportation.
They argued that the state had prioritized infrastructure projects such as highway construction and expansion that lock in the use of fossil fuels rather than focusing on projects that cut carbon emissions.
"We're addressing the impacts of climate change today, and needless to say, this is a priority because we know now that climate change is here," Green said. "It is not something that we're considering in an abstract way in the future."
You don’t need a degree to understand climate change, just an insurance policy
by Tribune Content Agency
June 17, 2024 from Bangor Daily News
Carly Fabian is an insurance policy advocate with Public Citizen’s Climate Program. She wrote this for InsideSources.com.You don’t need to be a scientist to understand the harms of climate change.
All you need is an insurance policy. And finding affordable insurance is getting harder in the places hit hardest by climate change.
As climate change increases the intensity and severity of extreme weather, the costs, both financially and in terms of human lives, are rising dramatically. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts an increase in Category 4 and 5 hurricanes. As sea level rise pushes storms farther inland, these storms will become more destructive and expensive.
Advances in climate attribution science are also leading to more precise estimates of the costs of climate change. After Hurricane Sandy, scientists attributed $8 billion of the total $60 billion to climate change.Unfortunately, when your area faces increased risk, your insurance company has little obligation to stick by you, even if you’ve been paying the premiums for years.In 2023, 398 global natural disaster events created $380 billion in losses, the highest on record. Reinsurance companies, which provide insurance for other insurance companies, have raised prices by nearly 40 percent in the last two years. Those costs are being passed down by primary insurers like Allstate and State Farm, raising premiums and deductibles and reducing coverage.
There are many innovative and limitless ways to study Climate Change now involving cutting edge medicine, engineering, technology, as well as continually exploring the vast databases contained within the arts and sciences.