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QUOTE: From Humboldt to Ludwig Bullmann, Cumaná (Venezuela), 13 October 1799 | PHOTO: Philadelphia, United States: cyclist in city traffic, December 2016

QUOTE: Travel Journal, visit to Honda (Colombia), 18 – 22 June 1801 | PHOTO: Anti-fracking protest against planned test drilling by the British energy company Cuadrilla in Balcombe, UK, 2013.

QUOTE: From Humboldt to Wilhelm Gabriel Wegener, Berlin, 3 June 1788 | PHOTO: On Idjwi Island, part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a member of the NGO Doctors Without Borders examines a child with cholera.
![„The climate of the continents [is dependent on the changes] which humans call forth on the surface of the land masses [...] by the production of huge masses of steam and gas in the centres of industry.“](/fileadmin/_processed_/3/c/csm_Humboldt-Tweets-Klima_en_8e8779b5c5.png)
QUOTE: „Central Asia. Investigations of the Mountain Ranges and Comparative Climatology.“, 1844 | PHOTO: Brayton Point Power Station in the U.S, state of Massachusetts. The facility was shut down in 2017.

QUOTE: Travel Journal, Lima (Peru), 23 October - 24 December 1802 | PHOTO: São Paulo, Brazil: Indigenous people protest against threats to ancestral land rights in 2015.

QUOTE: To Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Hamburg, 3 October 1790 | PHOTO: Donald Trump, seen here before he became US President, being driven through New York in a limousine (December 1999).

QUOTE: Travel Journal, Guayaquil (Ecuador), 4 January – 17 February 1803 | PHOTO: On 30.01.2018, migrants are brought to Augusta, Sicily, on board the MS Aquarius by SOS Méditerranée and Doctors Without Borders. In Augusta, the corpses of two passengers are recovered from the boat

QUOTE: To Wilhelm Gabriel Wegener, Berlin, 24 February 1788 | PHOTO: The homepage of the social network "Facebook"