Squarzoni Is In a New York State of Mind

When reading this section, I especially appreciated Squarzoni’s brilliant illustrations. His monochromatic images of New York City landmarks like the Empire State Building and Chinatown made me feel like I was looking at a vintage photo album. Squarzoni’s illustrations definitely gave me a sense of familiarity and provided some relief from the usual cold hard facts in the section.

On pages 242 and 243 Squarzoni writes that ,”We’re  caught in so many contradictions… We know, but we don’t make changes. Our initial ignorance has been replaced by some sort of split personality… We know that another story has begun. But we continue to act like it’s nothing. And the worst thing is it feels pretty good.” Just about everyone living in developed nations has experienced this. The more I read Climate Changed, the more I feel like global warming is more of a human nature issue than an ecological one. I don’t think that the average person has a personal vendetta against the planet. Humans naturally don’t enjoy feeling guilt, especially with a problem that involves so many ambiguities, uncertainties, and dead ends. And when people don’t know how to solve a problem they simply move onto something else.