At SELF, we’re committed to exploring the many intersections of personal and public health. We’re also committed to believing and trusting in science. So our brand’s stance on the climate crisis couldn’t be clearer: We’re in a state of environmental emergency, and humans are overwhelmingly to blame. As has increasingly been the case, Earth Day arrives this year on the heels of devastating environmental disasters that underscore how alarming the climate crisis really is. In February, a winter storm swept through Texas, killing at least 111 people; their deaths were mainly due to hypothermia. A few months earlier, 2020’s “record-breaking” and “relentless” Atlantic hurricane season came to a close after 30 named storms, a number so great that it required experts to dip into the Greek alphabet for only the second time. And as a bookend to a ghastly year, wildfires ravaged the West Coast, killing at least 43 people directly and causing at least 1,200 additional deaths from smoke-related causes. The destruction brought to mind the Australian bushfires that rang in 2020 well before many of us had heard the word “coronavirus.” Australia's bushfire season is only expected to worsen in lockstep with global heating. From India to Brazil and beyond, people across the world are suffering from the effects of “natural” disasters, which many climate scientists point out actually aren’t so natural anymore.