| dc.description.abstract | The climate is changing, there is no doubt about that.
Past and present practices are not enough, we need to
change now. This excerpt gives an adequate explanation
on the dire need for change, “Human experience and
memory offer no good analogy for how we should
think of those thresholds, but, as with world wars or
recurrences of cancer, you don’t want to even see one.
[talking about the degrees Celsius the earth warms
on average] At two degrees, the ice sheets will begin
their collapse, 400 million more people will suffer from
water scarcity, major cities in the equatorial band of the
planet will become unlivable, and even in the northern
latitudes heat waves will kill thousands each summer.
There will be thirty-two times as many extreme heat
waves in India, and each would last five times as long,
exposing ninety-three times more people. This is our
best-case scenario” (David Wallace-Wells, 2019). The
paragraph continues to lay out each degree and the
effects it will have and with each degree living on earth
gets increasingly more challenging.
These challenges make climate change a topic that a lot
of people struggle to make the much needed changes
or wrap their heads around the severity. Climate change
is many different factors wrapped up into a huge issue,
it’s also not right in front of our faces. If you come
across a large puddle, you make a quick decision, jump
over the puddle, walk around or step in the puddle.
This is a threat that is right in front of us whereas the
changes we see as an effect of climate change are slow
moving and do not always pop right in front of our
faces.
These challenges will be laid out and addressed through
a design project forced to acknowledge the effects
of climate change, the ever changing earth, and the
people who habitat the earth. | en_US |
