Renowned Icelandic Environmentalist And Poet Reframes The Way We Talk About Climate

On a recent trip to Iceland, we joined a sold-out crowd in a Reykjavík auditorium to listen to poet, author, environmentalist and former presidential candidate Andri Magnason. Audience members weren’t exactly sure what to expect. After all, how does one translate a book on climate crisis into performance art?

As one audience member told us when asked what would happen: “I’m not sure. But I believe it will amaze.”

Well, it did, and we don’t even speak Icelandic. For over an hour, people cheered and laughed as Magnason told stories; they teared up watching giant slides showing his grandparents perched atop a