The Covid-19 pandemic has not stopped the climate crisis. The climate crisis is the biggest threat of this century and will pose the biggest danger in years to come, in terms of both impact and likelihood, as found in the 2021 Global Risk Report from the World Economic Forum. As said by Jeffery Frankel, if anything, the pandemic has shown that Covid-19 and the climate crisis are part of the same battle, the terrible toll should remind us of the importance of science, public policy, and international cooperation in tackling both.

This ongoing series aims to look at the connection between the climate crisis and Covid-19 through the documentation of one-use masks found in Helsinki and Tampere, Finland. The photos are extremely color processed to highlight not only how these plastic masks have been poorly disposed of and are affecting the environment, but also how contaminated masks can still spread Covid-19. Due to the pandemic, action to fight the climate crisis will likely be delayed again, even though both are global issues in need of immediate international action.