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In dandelions and fireflies, artists try to make sense of climate change

  • Written by Kate Flint, Provost Professor of Art History and English, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Visitors walk through Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's installation 'Fireflies on the Water.'maurizio mucciola/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Climate change is real, it’s accelerating and it’s terrifying. We are adding carbon to the atmosphere at a rate 100 times faster than any previous natural increases, such as those that occurred at the end of...

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