Above: “We Hold These Truths...”  2008  14x14  Mixed-media Digital Montage

"As the effects of global warming become more and more difficult to ignore, will we react by finally fashioning a global response? Or will we retreat into ever narrower and more destructive forms of self-interest?

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could chose, in essence, to destroy itself. But that is what we are in the process of doing."

-- Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, 2006

For the facts on climate change

American photographer published in Time, Newsweek, People, The New York Times, The London Times, Paris Match, Popular Photography, and on more than 100 magazine and book covers.

Jim McNitt has worked as a press photographer for United Press International (1974), a free-lance marine photojournalist (1975-1982), and a contract writer and editor for Newsweek International Special Projects (1982-2002).