Farmers and residents across the Midwest are currently “living climate change,” according to experts and scientists who are observing catastrophic flooding from one of the rainiest springs on record.

In the days between September 19th-25th, the environmental campaign Free

the Soil plans to block the second largest nitrogen fertilizer

production plant in Europe, the YARA facility in Brunsbüttel, northern

Germany, with hundreds of activists from all across Europe in an action

of mass civil disobedience.

“Most people in the world are mainlanders, and island people have very unique, distinct cultures and traditions and we know we can’t live without what’s going on with the water. Everything in our life has to do with it,” Queen Quet says, noting that warnings about obvious signs like damaged trees standing in saltwater along the shorelines of the Sea Islands have fallen on deaf ears amid an increased focus on now-expensive waterfront property.