The article I chose was "Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change," by Nathaniel Rich. This article goes deep into a time during the 80's where many powers across the world began to actually take the risks of climate change seriously and it seemed like positive change may actually come to fruition, but an unfortunate set of circumstances prevented that from going all the way through. The tone of the article is impactful, moving, driven, with a slight bitter hopelessness at the ultimate failure of our leadership. As such, I chose gritty, worn visuals of a skull, Earth, and flames with clouds of smoke to ellicit these same ideas. The black negative space creates a heaviness, and the skull on the cover has the title over its mouth as though it has been censored or silenced to attempt to embody the feeling that those who fought to bring climate change to the forefront must have felt.