Timed to coincide with the COP21 UN conference in Paris,this video installation is a stark reality check for soil’s inhabitants as sea levels rise, natural disasters proliferate and forced migration multipliesThere are more than 19.5 million refugees worldwide, and cities are emitting 70% of all greenhouses gases and around 3500 languages are currently in danger of extinction.
The statistics around the climate change debate may make for increasingly stark reading,but they suffer from one major drawback: that we, as humans, and find it difficult to relate to data – no matter how shocking the numbers.
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Source: theguardian.com