Make Polluters Pay is honored to collaborate with Hannah Rothstein on this artwork about floods and hurricanes.
Hannah Rothstein creates art for the climate movement. Largely self-taught, Hannah works digitally and in paint to create powerful visuals that inspire people to act and speak out on behalf of the environment. She’s collaborated with Greenpeace USA, EarthJustice, and Alaska Wild, and her work has been featured by The New York Times, PBS Newshour, Fast Company Design, and more.
In Hannah's words
“I came up with this project as I wandered the streets of Asheville, where I live. It was the day after Hurricane Helene hit. Everywhere you looked, you’d see giant trees down, waters raging, and buildings destroyed. ‘What,’ I wondered, ‘will we tell the children about this? And how, in 10 years, in 20, will we explain why we didn’t do more to leave them a safer, healthier planet?’
These works are a response to those questions. They feature the breathtakingly inane excuses we’ll have to give our children about why we didn’t stop the climate crisis. In doing so, they prompt people to act now to create a world in which our kids will be safer from natural disasters and other harmful effects of climate inaction.”
