The Story of Climate Change is Incomplete Without the Stories of the People It Affects

Climate change isn't just about disasters, species endangerment and extinction, mass relocations, loss of ancestral homelands, and extreme weather events. Climate change is about the local stories... about the people who've lost more than homes and belongings, like the young widow in this image. She's far too young to experience the grief and despair of losing her family to a devastating tornado. Yet, here she is, standing in the rain, surrounded by the rubble of a powerful tornado, mourning her family, asking desperately for an answer... why didn't it take her too? Why did she survive? How will she go on without the ones she loved? What will she do now?