Browse poems engaging with the climate crisis, including poems about climate change, global warming, nature, and the environment.
“The science of climate change is unequivocal. Its negative social and financial consequences are clear, dire, and exponential.... And yet we have been unable to effect change at the necessary scale. We have failed, somehow, to humanize this issue.... A good poem reminds us of our shared humanity. A good poem will string words together like pearls and connect us, shock us out of our usual tropes. A good poem reminds us of everything we share and everything we put at risk.” —Treehouse Investments, in a Q&A about the Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize
Popular Poems about Climate Change
“I Don’t Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We've Done to the Earth” by Fatimah Asghar
so I count my hopes: the bumblebees …
“As a Portent” by David Baker
At least there was a …
“Ice Would Suffice” by Risa Denenberg
How swift, how far …
“Characteristics of Life” by Camille T. Dungy
Ask me if I speak for the snail and I will tell you …
“Speaking Tree” by Joy Harjo
Some things on this earth are unspeakable …
“The Poem Grace Interrupted” by Mikko Harvey
There was once a planet who was both …
“Let Them Not Say” by Jane Hirshfield
Let them not say: we did not see it …
“Song for the Turtles in the Gulf” by Linda Hogan
We had been together so very long …
“Romance #1” by Eunsong Kim
like some 14 year old girl waiting …
“Evening” by Dorianne Laux
Moonlight pours down …
“Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now” by Matthew Olzmann
Most likely, you will think we hated the elephant …
“Some Effects of Global Warming in Lackawanna County” by Jay Parini
The maples sweat now, out of season …
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens)” by Craig Santos Perez
Among starving polar bears …
“High Dangerous” by Catherine Pierce
is what my sons call the flowers …
“Advice to a Prophet” by Richard Wilbur
When you come, as you soon must …