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Pulitzer-Winning Composer on How Music Can Inspire Climate Action

Julia Wolfe shares how she wrote unEarth, an oratorio about global warming and nature loss. 

The premiere of Julia Wolfe's oratorio unEarth performed at the Barbican Centre in London on Jan. 23.

Photographer: Mark Allan

How can music be used to communicate the climate crisis and its solutions?

This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi talks with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Julia Wolfe about her recent work, unEarth, which explores climate change and habitat loss through orchestra, voice and poetry.