Climate journalism is a vital tool for communicating and documenting the major climate shifts, challenges we face, and solutions that are available to us. Together, the sum 3000+ words in the three articles these magnets were made from describe important truths about our experience here in Maine and internationally. The word bank they provide is appropriately limited because the journalists who wrote these articles intended to present objective facts over their, or any one person's opinion. The pronouns “you” and “I” only appear in four or five instances while “we” appears more than twenty times.

Across these three articles, the words “earth,” “children,” “rain,” and “ocean” only appear once and the word “storm” appears fourteen times. This makes sense because articles typically focus on one story at a time, like the historic January storms that hit Maine in 2024. But, how many of us could express the fullness of any of our attitudes, desires, and fears about the climate crisis without saying “children,” and “earth” a hundred times over, or without words that these articles avoid, like “sky” or “love.”

The facts of the climate crisis point to a limited set of futures, but the future is not created by the facts presented in journalism alone. There are nameless truths within each of us that will determine how the future unfolds depending on how we are compelled to act on them. By rearranging the limited and scrambled vocabulary of journalistic facts, what truths within us could be named? What might we make of the facts? And what becomes possible when we do this in collaboration?