Representing the "invisible crime" of climate change in an age of post-truth

This article builds on prior writing on the ophthalmological aspects of climate change to argue that in an age of climate change denial and post-truthwhich Oxford Dictionaries defines as relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal beliefdeveloping a visual language of climate change becomes of paramount importance. This article suggests that while media representations of climate change may serve to reduce climate change to a stock set of visual cliches certain art may improve our visual acuity of climate change. Accordingly, this article looks at select examples of artwork on the causes and consequences of climate change and considers the capacity of such work to inspire personal and political action.