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The World Heats Up
Rising temperatures are accelerating change in all of Earth's systems. The Coral Triangle, between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, is a fundamental ecosystem in that coastal area. As coral bleaching expands, marine species are disappearing at an alarming rate, and ecological coherence is breaking down. Ecological instability affects fragile archipelagoes, from tropical Hawaii (Hawaiian Archipelago, to the right) to Novaya Zemla in the Arctic (Novaya Zemla, hanging in the lobby).
In Summer Heat, everything is happening at once: atmospheric CO2 is rising, glaciers are melting, oceans are warming, Australia is burning. The causes and effects of climate change crash into each other, producing a detonative compound even more dangerous than its individual components. |