2019
Edited by Jessica Ceballos y Campbell

For the past 10,000 years Earth’s temperature has been a steady warm, but rising C02 levels have been pushing that temperature to a dangerous point. Climate experts around the world are warning us of our Earth’s temperature climbing higher each year. An additional 2° Celsius is the number they’ve given us as the point of no return. At this level scientists expect longer droughts; an increase in extreme weather; animals and plants will be at a higher risk of extinction; the Arctic will keep melting; crop yields will decrease, and freshwater will decline. Yet, roughly 40% of the population doesn’t believe in climate change, with many of those believing it’s a hoax. What do you think?

2 DEGREES: poetry in response to climate change, is a bilingual literary project in conjunction with Avenue 50 Studio’s visual art group exhibition on the dangers of climate change.

FEATURING POETRY BY: Art Currim, Christine Jordan, elena minor, Fernando Salinas, Gloria Enedina Alvarez, Jacqueline Tchakalian, Leslie Gray, Linda Dove, Lisa Alvarez, Luis Antonio Pichardo, Mildred Fuentes-Chung, Ron Baca, Sharon Kunde, Xitllali Garcia, and Yvonne M. Estrada and more.

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accoutrements: a public literary series is a project made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Local Impact grant from the California Arts Council.