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Can all flourishing be mutual?

An ecological cascade effect is a series of secondary extinctions triggered by the primary extinction of a key species within an ecosystem.

Insidious Rising is a speculative info-experience that attempts to find the relationships between three climatic triggers on Earth: accelerated warming, cryosphere thaw, and rising sea levels. Our home has flooded and is off balance. Our sins flow into the ocean and are released into the atmosphere. As our climate becomes more extreme, the red flags of the past are rising to confront us. The efforts to fight the climate crisis can bring justice and solutions by empowering vulnerable communities that are often overlooked.

This is an artistic exploration based on the 2019 IPCC Report and data from scientific journals found on the internet. Because data is very coarse, some guesswork and extrapolation was necessary.

Everything is interconnected.

Hyphen-Labs

Hyphen-Labs is a London based design studio, founded by Carmen Aguilar y Wedge and Ece Tankal, which explores fantasies, absurdities, and coincidences at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Through their global vision and multidisciplinary backgrounds, they are driven to create engaging ways to explore planetary-centered design.

Allison Akootchook Warden

Allison Akootchook Warden is an artist who works through many genres. She writes short twitter poems @AKU_MATU and a book of her twitter poems "TAIMANISAAQ/AKKUPAK (the long long ago/right now) was published by the Anchorage Museum in 2016. Warden is Iñupiaq and a tribal member of the Native Village of Kaktovik. www.allisonwarden.com

simppafi

Simo 'simppafi' Santavirta is a craftsman of the digital era: he has had a passion for real-time graphics, graphics design and user experience for 20 years. Simo, from Pori in Finland, is a demoscene hobbyist and a freelancer creative coder and is always creating something - art, services or apps using several technologies such as JS, WebGL, Notch, Fuse, Unreal and Blender. www.simppa.fi

Insidious Rising is part of Heartbeat of the Earth, a series of online experiments interpreting climate data, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture lab.

Thanks

Artist: Hyphen-Labs, Ece Tankal & Carmen Aguilar y Wedge
Visual Designer: Hyphen-Labs, Ece Tankal & Carmen Aguilar y Wedge
Google Arts and Culture Creative team: Clare Brooks
UI Dev & Research: Valeria Ippolito, Romy Gad el Rab, The Workers
Developer: simppafi, Simo Santavirta
Three.js Developer: Cabibo, Isaac Cohen
Scientists: Union of Concerned Scientists, Kristina Dahl, Ricky Robertson
Poet: Allison Akootchook Warden
Copy Editor: Dorothy Santos, Léon
Dische-Becker, Kyrié Gibson
Audio Engineer: Mert Çetinkaya

Scientific Remarks

Insidious Rising is a data driven literature survey using the IPCC warming scenario “RCP 8.5,” a high-emissions scenario. Existing data is coarse and there is no direct data that correlates global glacier melt with temperature rise so some guesswork was necessary. Responding to the RCP8.5 scenario, we attempted to map cascade effects to create a holistic model of what would happen to our world when glaciers start to melt. The RCP8.5 is the model for a scenario where we do not make efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions drastically. No direct correlation of numerical data, rather except for extrapolation of temperature rise and CO2 emissions impacting glacier melt, rather an attempt to find the interconnections between events and temperature in a comprehensive way.

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how did this come to be?

our great-great grandchildren

excavate our ancestral social media

who found it "all too overwhelming"

rooted to the binge

and the ultimate uvva hii

listen

to our future great-great selves

sending messages back

"you can shift this future"

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Written and narrated by Iñupiaq artist Allison Akootchook Warden, a tribal member of the Native Village of Kaktovik

Our Call to Action

Covid-19 didn’t exist when we began thinking about this project. The IPCC report had just come out and we wanted to share its findings in a website.

A few years later, we are all still living this collective experience, and without trying to sugarcoat things, we do feel hopeful. Through this disruption we have seen examples of community collaboration and success of interdependent networks that prove, when we come together, we can find solutions.

· VOTE FOR LEADERS WHO WILL INCREASE CORPORATE TAXES AND REGULATIONS TO DISCOURAGE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.

· SUPPORT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AS LEADERS IN THE DISCOURSES AROUND THE CLIMATE CRISIS GIVING THEM AUTHORITY TO MAKE DECISIONS AND DRIVE SOLUTIONS.

In order to truly deliver on our promise of justice for all, we must urge our leaders to deliver on theirs. Help protect our environment and secure our future by taking action today.

Explore the individuals and organizations who are working on the front lines of the climate crisis. Find leaders in your community who are also taking action and get involved.

Environmental Stewards

bibliography

Rising Sea Levels

IPCC Sea Level Change 13.4.1 Ocean Heat Uptake and Thermal Expansion & Fig 13.2

Ice Sings goodbye song

Foxhall, Emily. “Brazos River Takes Homes, Roads, Bridges in Ever-Changing Path.” Houston Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, 24 June 2019, https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Unstoppable-Brazos-River-takes-homes-roads-12252536.php

Insurers refuse to provide flood coverage to Venice. (2019, November 20). Retrieved from https://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20191120/STORY/912331758/Insurers-refuse-to-provide-flood-coverage-to-Venice

Expensive Life

IPCC, 2019: Summary for Policymakers. In: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, V. Masson-Delmotte, P. Zhai, M. Tignor, E. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Nicolai, A. Okem, J. Petzold, B. Rama, N.M. Weyer (eds.)]. In press. (Refer to sections A.7.2., TS.2)

Hock, R., G. Rasul, C. Adler, B. Cáceres, S. Gruber, Y. Hirabayashi, M. Jackson, A. Kääb, S. Kang, S. Kutuzov, A. Milner, U. Molau, S. Morin, B. Orlove, and H. Steltzer, 2019: High Mountain Areas. In: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, V. Masson-Delmotte, P. Zhai, M. Tignor, E. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Nicolai, A. Okem, J. Petzold, B. Rama, N.M. Weyer (eds.)]. In press. (Refer to section 2.3.2.2.2, 2.3.2.2.3, 2.3.1., 2.3.7, Box 2.4)

Meredith, M., M. Sommerkorn, S. Cassotta, C. Derksen, A. Ekaykin, A. Hollowed, G. Kofinas, A. Mackintosh, J. Melbourne-Thomas, M.M.C. Muelbert, G. Ottersen, H. Pritchard, and E.A.G. Schuur, 2019: Polar Regions. In: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, V. Masson-Delmotte, P. Zhai, M. Tignor, E. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Nicolai, A. Okem, J. Petzold, B. Rama, N.M. Weyer (eds.)]. In press. (Refer to section 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.5.2, Figure SPM.2)

Toxic Soup

Frank Bajak Of The Associated Press. “Hurricane Harvey's Toxic Impact Deeper than Public Told.” AP NEWS, Associated Press, 23 Mar. 2018, https://apnews.com/article/environment-hurricanes-storms-tx-state-wire-north-america-e0ceae76d5894734b0041210a902218d.

Troubled Tomorrows

Valentine , Harry. “Maritime Container Shipping and Rising Sea Levels.” The Maritime Executive, https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/maritime-container-shipping-and-rising-sea-levels-1.

Mass Displacement

Palmer, Grace. “Remains of Cold War Plane Crash Emerging From Rapidly Melting Alaska Glacier.” State of the Planet, 29 July 2020, https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/07/28/cold-war-plane-crash-remains-alaska/.

Larter, David B. “Congress Wants the US Military to Challenge Russia with a New Arctic Port.” Defense News, Defense News, 21 June 2019, https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2019/06/21/congress-wants-the-us-military-to-challenge-russia-with-a-new-arctic-port/.

Forever Refugees

Radosavljevic, Boris, et al. “Erosion and Flooding—Threats to Coastal Infrastructure in the Arctic: A Case Study from Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada.” Estuaries and Coasts, vol. 39, no. 4, 2015, pp. 900–915., doi:10.1007/s12237-015-0046-0. sustainability-11-05227-v2.pdf Climate Change Challenges to Existing Cultural Heritage Policy

Empty Aisles

Ffoulkes, Charles. “Two Thousand Livestock Drowned, Infrastructure Damaged and Agricultural Land Destroyed in Recent Flooding.” ADAS, 19 Jan. 2016, https://www.adas.uk/News/two-thousand-livestock-drowned-infrastructure-damaged-and-agricultural-land-destroyed-in-recent-flooding.

Water Wars

Stacey, Combes, et al. “Going, Going, Gone! Climate Change & Global Glacier Decline.” World Wildlife Fund, Designed by IPMA Worldwide Press, 27 Nov. 2003, https://wwfeu.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/glacierspaper.pdf.

Accelerated Warming

(IM)PERMAFROST

Biskaborn, Boris K., et al. "Permafrost is warming at a global scale." Nature communications 10.1 (2019): 1-11. As cited in: Perkins (2019).

Perkins, Sid. “Earth's Permafrost Is Heating Up.” Science News for Students, Society for Science and the Public, 5 Dec. 2019, https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/earths-permafrost-heating-up-melting.

Moving North

Denyer, Simon, and Chris Mooney. “How Climate Change Is Killing Japan's Salmon Trade.” The Independent, Independent Digital News and Media, 19 Nov. 2019, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/salmon-japan-climate-change-ice-melting-global-warming-a9204636.html.

Bindoff, N.L., W.W.L. Cheung, J.G. Kairo, J. Arístegui, V.A. Guinder, R. Hallberg, N. Hilmi, N. Jiao, M.S. Karim, L. Levin, S. O’Donoghue, S.R. Purca Cuicapusa, B. Rinkevich, T. Suga, A. Tagliabue, and P. Williamson, 2019: Changing Ocean, Marine Ecosystems, and Dependent Communities. In: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, V. Masson-Delmotte, P. Zhai, M. Tignor, E. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Nicolai, A. Okem, J. Petzold, B. Rama, N.M. Weyer (eds.)]. In press. (Refer to section 5.4.1)

Shrinking habitats

Burning Cascade Head.” BRAIDING SWEETGRASS: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by ROBIN WALL. KIMMERER, PENGUIN BOOKS, 2020, pp. 241–246.

Collins M., M. Sutherland, L. Bouwer, S.-M. Cheong, T. Frölicher, H. Jacot Des Combes, M. Koll Roxy, I. Losada, K. McInnes, B. Ratter, E. Rivera-Arriaga, R.D. Susanto, D. Swingedouw, and L. Tibig, 2019: Extremes, Abrupt Changes and Managing Risk. In: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, V. Masson-Delmotte, P. Zhai, M. Tignor, E. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Nicolai, A. Okem, J. Petzold, B. Rama, N.M. Weyer (eds.)]. In press. (Refer to sections 6.4.2)

Changing the forest floors

Diamond, Sarah E., et al. “Climatic Warming Destabilizes Forest Ant Communities.” Science Advances, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1 Oct. 2016, https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/10/e1600842.

Stuble, Katharine L., et al. “Foraging by Forest Ants under Experimental Climatic Warming: a Test at Two Sites.” Wiley Online Library, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 18 Jan. 2013, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.473.

Smelled like smoke

IPCC, 2019: Summary for Policymakers. In: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate [H.-O.Pörtner,D.C.Roberts,V.Masson-Delmotte,P.Zhai,M.Tignor,E.Poloczanska,K.Mintenbeck,A.Alegría,M.Nicolai, A. Okem, J. Petzold, B. Rama, N.M. Weyer (eds.)]. In press. (Refer to section B.4.3)

Dry mountain ranges

Allen, M. (2020, February 25). Amazon Fires Contribute to Andean Glacier Melting. Retrieved November 09, 2020, from https://eos.org/articles/amazon-fires-contribute-to-andean-glacier-melting

Permaheat

Abram, N., J.-P. Gattuso, A. Prakash, L. Cheng, M.P. Chidichimo, S. Crate, H. Enomoto, M. Garschagen, N. Gruber, S. Harper, E. Holland, R.M. Kudela, J. Rice, K. Steffen, and K. von Schuckmann, 2019: Framing and Context of the Report. In: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, V. Masson-Delmotte, P. Zhai, M. Tignor, E. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Nicolai, A. Okem, J. Petzold, B. Rama, N.M. Weyer (eds.)]. In press. (Refer to section 1.5.2)

Thompson, Gabriel. “'The Sun Is Hot and You Can't Breathe in a Mask' - Life as an Undocumented Farmworker.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 28 May 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/28/undocumented-farmworker-us-immigration-california.

Doyle, Kathryn. “Rise in Heat Waves Tied to Kidney Disease 'Epidemics'.” Reuters, Thomson Reuters, 11 May 2016, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-heatwaves-kidney-disease/rise-in-heat-waves-tied-to-kidney-disease-epidemics-idUSKCN0Y22H4.

Roncal-Jimenez, Carlos A., et al. “Mesoamerican Nephropathy or Global Warming Nephropathy?” Blood Purification, vol. 41, no. 1-3, 2016, pp. 135–138., doi:10.1159/000441265.

Cryosphere Thaw

Cryosphere

Hock, R., G. Rasul, C. Adler, B. Cáceres, S. Gruber, Y. Hirabayashi, M. Jackson, A. Kääb, S. Kang, S. Kutuzov, A. Milner, U. Molau, S. Morin, B. Orlove, and H. Steltzer, 2019: High Mountain Areas. In: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, V. Masson-Delmotte, P. Zhai, M. Tignor, E. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Nicolai, A. Okem, J. Petzold, B. Rama, N.M. Weyer (eds.)]. In press. (Refer to sections 2: 2.2.3 Glaciers)

Fountain, Andrew G., et al. “Evolution of Cryoconite Holes and Their Contribution to Meltwater Runoff from Glaciers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica.” Journal of Glaciology, vol. 50, no. 168, 2004, pp. 35–45., doi:10.3189/172756504781830312.

Ancient Viruses emerge

Hoberg, Eric P., and Daniel R. Brooks. “Evolution in Action: Climate Change, Biodiversity Dynamics and Emerging Infectious Disease.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 370, no. 1665, 2015, p. 20130553., doi:10.1098/rstb.2013.0553.

Perpetual Pandemics

Welch, Craig. “Melting Arctic Permafrost Could Release Tons of Toxic Mercury.” National Geographic, 6 Feb. 2018, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/melting-arctic-permafrost-toxic-mercury-environment.

What is dinner?

Bottollier-Depois, Amélie. “How Climate Change Could Expose New Epidemics.” Phys.org, Phys.org, 16 Aug. 2020, phys.org/news/2020-08-climate-expose-epidemics.html

Feder, Shira. “Brain-Eating Amoebas Are Thriving in US Rivers and Lakes. The Problem Is Getting Worse Every Year.” Insider, Insider, 28 Sept. 2020, www.insider.com/rise-of-brain-eating-amoeba-naegleria-fowleri-in-us-waters-2020-7.

Graham, David W. “Antibiotic Resistant 'Superbug' Genes Found in the High Arctic.” The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2020, theconversation.com/antibiotic-resistant-superbug-genes-found-in-the-high-arctic-110636.

Fox-Skelly, Jasmin. “Earth - There Are Diseases Hidden in Ice, and They Are Waking Up.” BBC, BBC, 4 May 2017, www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up.

An Anxious Ocean

Oppenheimer, M., B.C. Glavovic , J. Hinkel, R. van de Wal, A.K. Magnan, A. Abd-Elgawad, R. Cai, M. Cifuentes-Jara, R.M. DeConto, T. Ghosh, J. Hay, F. Isla, B. Marzeion, B. Meyssignac, and Z. Sebesvari, 2019: Sea Level Rise and Implications for Low-Lying Islands, Coasts and Communities. In: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, V. Masson-Delmotte, P. Zhai, M. Tignor, E. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Nicolai, A. Okem, J. Petzold, B. Rama, N.M. Weyer (eds.)]. In press. (Refer to section 4.3.3.4.2 Figure 4.13)

Fritz, Angela. “How Climate Change Is Making 'Red Tide' Algal Blooms Even Worse.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 24 Apr. 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/08/14/how-climate-change-is-making-red-tide-algal-blooms-even-worse/.

Fishy Behavior

Metcalfe, John. “Climate Change Is Creating Anxious Fish.” Bloomberg CityLab, 6 Dec. 2013, www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-12-06/climate-change-is-creating-anxious-fish.

Unproductive New World

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Rising Sea Levels

Written and narrated by Iñupiaq artist Allison Akootchook Warden, a tribal member of the Native Village of Kaktovik

ice sings a goodbye song

expanding oceans towards city tops

the seal swims, poisons in her fat

as floods rise toxins up

ships depend on the moon to pass under bridges

who owns the Arctic?

how will a glacier be remembered?

where do the animals run?

when we have no water left?

Accelerated Warming

Written and narrated by Iñupiaq artist Allison Akootchook Warden, a tribal member of the Native Village of Kaktovik

(im)Permafrost

send gasses up

rehoming salmon in Arctic waters

yearning cries echo

ants overbuild

as mountaintops alight in fire

if you work in the sun, constant water will not quench you

oh glacier, your retreat caused the high mountain to collapse

that town is no more

Cyrosphere Thaw

Written and narrated by Iñupiaq artist Allison Akootchook Warden, a tribal member of the Native Village of Kaktovik

glacial dust

ping into ancient bacteria rising from the dead

we are all walking contaminants

deadly parasites emerge in warm pools

manic fish with hurt feelings

watch krill get bullied away by harmful algae blooms

the natural world is our mirror

is this our self hate song?

Rising Sea Levels

The ice is melting. The glaciers are shrinking. Our oceans are warming and rising. But how will this affect me? You wonder, as a shadow rises quietly in the distance.

Ice Sings a Goodbye Song

By now, our coastal cities are regularly underwater. Locals call it flood season. Those who can afford it move inland. The water leaves behind crumbling infrastructure. Insurance companies stopped covering floods here in the early ‘20s.

Expensive Life

Our ports are no longer reliable trading routes. The international supply chain is increasingly disrupted. There are shortages of food, water and medicine, not to mention the finer things we’ve gotten used to. Everything is getting more expensive.

Toxic Soup

When hurricanes join the mix, our old cities are flooded with toxic waste. The people who can’t afford to evacuate are exposed to water-borne illnesses and dangerous chemicals, with long-term side-effects.

Troubled Tomorrows

It’s 2050 and 300 million people are now living in regions that flood regularly. Every major flood or drought leads to a wave of mass displacement, and the political repercussions of well-placed people not wanting to take in climate refugees.

Mass Displacement

Some people stick around and learn to live in flood zones, trying to hold onto a way of life they’ve built for generations. Eventually they are forcibly evacuated slightly further inland, to a future flood zone.

Forever Refugees

Governments plan the complete withdrawal from their previously bustling coastal masses of people trying to flee them.

Empty Aisles

Inland, there is more flooding also. But worse still, there is drought. The internal supply chains are disrupted too. There is widespread freshwater shortage and food insecurity.

Water Wars

Around the world, wars are being fought over water and the remaining inhabitable land. Too much salt, not enough fresh water. This is one of our possible climate change futures, if we don’t do something about it. What can you do?

Accelerated Warming

Greenhouse gasses are raising temperatures, and this heat is unleashing more greenhouse gases. Our polar regions contain epic reserves of carbon. What will it mean for you when they’re unleashed?

(IM)PERMAFROST

As the world’s permafrost thaws, billions of tons of C02, mercury, methane, and other greenhouse gasses are set free. These further insulate our atmosphere, escalating the warming of our planet.

Moving North

The warmer waters are pushing Salmon north. The once too cold waters near the Siberian coast are now the optimum temperature, straining diplomatic relations as the salmon relocate from Japan to Russian waters.

Shrinking habitats

Heat waves bring waves of casualties every summer. Droughts turn rich soil into its lifeless relative, dust. The areas where food can be grown is shrinking, while the world’s population grows and ages.

Smelled like smoke

Wildfires rage hotter and more frequently, beyond what our forests have evolved to endure. Our world’s most complex ecosystems become deserts.

Dry mountain ranges

The Himalayan glaciers, which supply water to 2 billion people, are disappearing. Whole communities are flooded, and yet without fresh water. Nearby industries dry out too.

Permaheat

Kidney disease has been found along the Pacific Coast of Central America affecting those working in the sugar cane fields. Limited water makes for recurrent dehydration and dry climates and strong winds drive uncontrollable wildfires. The workers and the crops can’t endure the rising temperatures.

Unpredictable

As our most vital resources dwindle, the war for them dominates world politics. In the meantime, whole communities and ways of life are obliterated with the ecosystems they depended on. This is one of our possible climate change futures. What can you do to prevent it?

Cryosphere

The cryosphere, the world of ice all around us, is disappearing. As temperatures rise, the glaciers to our north are melting into the sea. The ancient ice deposits on our mountains are thawing into our rivers. But how, you ask, will that affect me?

Ancient Viruses emerge

The cryosphere contains our frozen biological history, and now is dispersing it back into our ecosystem. Ancient bacteria and viruses wriggle back to life after thousands of years in the permafrost.

Perpetual Pandemics

New outbreaks of Spanish flu, smallpox, the plague, and anthrax are traced back to the thawing permafrost. They spread into our drinking water and our agriculture and from there into us. Is another pandemic inevitable?

What is Dinner?

Food production suffers, after high levels of toxic substances such as parafins and mercury are found in the fat layers of arctic mammals, birds and fish. Water supplies are tainted, leading into our water pipes, causing malnutrition and developmental issues.

An Anxious Ocean

Algae blooms multiply exponentially. Sapped of oxygen, colorful ocean reefs die and turn white. Habitats diminish as food becomes less available for marine animals and seabirds. The ocean’s water have grown more acidic.

Fishy Behavior

Large swaths of the ocean are now no longer habitable for many kinds of sea life. The acidity makes fish anxious, causes brain damage, and reproductive issues. The remaining fishing communities disappear.

Unproductive New World

Anti-toxic supplements are now a regular part of the human diet. Our cities are underwater. New and old diseases flourish. This is one of our possible climate change futures, if we don’t do something about it. What can you do?

3d orbit

InsidiousRising

about

Can all flourishing be mutual?

Hyphen-Labs

Allison Akootchook Warden

simppafi

Thanks

Scientific Remarks

Privacy policy

Our Call to Action

bibliography

Rising Sea Levels

Rising Sea Levels

Ice Sings goodbye song

Expensive Life

Toxic Soup

Troubled Tomorrows

Mass Displacement

Forever Refugees

Empty Aisles

Water Wars

Accelerated Warming

(IM)PERMAFROST

Moving North

Shrinking habitats

Changing the forest floors

Smelled like smoke

Dry mountain ranges

Permaheat

Cryosphere Thaw

Cryosphere

Ancient Viruses emerge

Perpetual Pandemics

What is dinner?

An Anxious Ocean

Fishy Behavior

Unproductive New World

Our Human Touch has warmed the planet.

CAPITALISTIC EXPLOITATION OF EARTH'S FINITE RESOURCES IS ACCELERATING THE MELTING OF OUR PRECIOUS GLACIERS.

2 more degrees of warming will trigger the irreversible collapse of our world's ice.

how will our big-city lives be affected? Can our physical distance excuse our moral responsibility?