Climate Collision
Sarah Bowman and London Gibson, Indianapolis Star
Published
11:23 am UTC Jan. 18, 2021
Rick Clark was out working the field on his farm near Williamsport, Ind. one day, 16 years ago. Then a one-inch rain rolled in.
He didn’t think anything of it at the time, he said. That is, until the next morning, when Clark drove his truck out and saw the soil streaming from his farm into a nearby ditch.
That was the exact moment he knew: The way he had farmed his land for decades was draining the life from it.
“That’s when it just hit me,” Clark said. “It’s time to make a change.”