Siri Chilukuri

Dec 18, 2024 | scalawagmagazine.org | Siri Chilukuri

When Hurricanes Helene and Milton blew through the South in the middle of hurricane season, it was clear that despite past hurricanes carving paths through the region, this time would be different. This was true for so many people and communities that stood in the path of destruction—especially farmworkers. The flooding of fields with debris and stormwater would mean a loss of jobs for many farmworkers who had their season cut short. The damage was severe.

Nov 7, 2024 | motherjones.com | Julianne McShane |Siri Chilukuri |Michael Mechanic |Mark Follman

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Nov 1, 2024 | motherjones.com | Siri Chilukuri FellowBio |Siri Chilukuri

There’s one line in the sprawling, 900-hundred page document known as Project 2025 that sketches out a plan to eliminate hundreds of millions dollars of federal money meant to help protect some of the most disadvantaged people in the country from pollution and the effects of global warming. Project 2025, crafted by the conservative-think tank the Heritage Foundation, is widely-acknowledged to be a blueprint for a potential Trump presidency—despite his efforts to distance himself from it.

Oct 22, 2024 | motherjones.com | Siri Chilukuri FellowBio |Siri Chilukuri

Jeff VanderMeer insists that he does not predict the future. Yet mere weeks before his new novel, Absolution, hit shelves, Hurricane Helene tore through the part of Florida where he lives, sharing an uncanny likeness to the fictional hurricane in his book. Of course, there’s a difference between art and reality. The through line between the storms is the climate crisis that inspired VanderMeer to write the trilogy of books that made him a household name a decade ago.

Sep 17, 2024 | motherjones.com | Siri Chilukuri |Siri Chilukuri FellowBio

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has a tenuous relationship with the word “hope.” The marine biologist, policy expert, teacher, and author is too much of a pragmatist to rely on something so passive. Hope as a noun is defined as having an expectation of a positive outcome. To Johnson, that’s not in line with reality. In a chapter near the end of her new book, What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures, she writes, “Fuck hope. Where’s the strategy?