Lucas Klesch

I am a climate scientist and artist working on my fifth book of poetry entitled, Elephant in the Room. It is a collection of poems exploring the angst of the impending climate catastrophe we are currently facing that is coming to fruition by traveling the old west and using it as the parable landscape for man’s impact on earth. Climate Change and the angst it entails is currently the Elephant in the Room of every conversation, interaction, and thought humans are having. We are all going through the grief associated with being responsible for the destruction of earth. Regardless of consciousness of where you are on the scale of grief, it is the thing we are all wrestling with. My goal is to illuminate how to process the emotions, and deal with the elephant, so we may get to the transition period sooner than later, and begin a new way of living. This after all is what the angst is rooted in, our inability to even acknowledge our climate reality. To say it out loud means we admit our crimes against humanity, and that admission means we must accept radical fundamental changes to society. This book of poems will also be used as the spoken word narration for a film on climate change I am working on entitled Visual Intersections which will use my photographs from travelling the old west as a parable of climate change.

Lucas Klesch

I am a climate scientist and artist working on my fifth book of poetry entitled, Elephant in the Room. It is a collection of poems exploring the angst of the impending climate catastrophe we are currently facing that is coming to fruition by traveling the old west and using it as the parable landscape for man’s impact on earth. Climate Change and the angst it entails is currently the Elephant in the Room of every conversation, interaction, and thought humans are having. We are all going through the grief associated with being responsible for the destruction of earth. Regardless of consciousness of where you are on the scale of grief, it is the thing we are all wrestling with. My goal is to illuminate how to process the emotions, and deal with the elephant, so we may get to the transition period sooner than later, and begin a new way of living. This after all is what the angst is rooted in, our inability to even acknowledge our climate reality. To say it out loud means we admit our crimes against humanity, and that admission means we must accept radical fundamental changes to society. This book of poems will also be used as the spoken word narration for a film on climate change I am working on entitled Visual Intersections which will use my photographs from travelling the old west as a parable of climate change.