Melbourne: Australian scientists and artists are trying to hold the world accountable for Earth’s future by creating an “indestructible” storage device to record humanity’s handling of the climate change crisis.
Inspired by the flight recorder of an airplane, the “Earth’s Black Box” will be built in 2022 on the far west coast of Tasmania, considered to be geographically and politically stable, from its manufacturer, the marketing communications company clemenger bbdo till University of Tasmania, said in a statement.
This comes after UN climate talks Glasgow Last month ended with a deal that kept hopes alive of capping global warming at 1.5 Celsius.
“The Earth Black Box is a structure and tool that will record every step that humanity takes toward or away from an impending climate catastrophe,” Jim said. curtis, executive creative director at Clemenger BBDO, who came up with the idea for the black box.
He said the box would not only provide the world with a wealth of data on climate change, the information recorded would help hold leaders accountable and leave lessons for generations to come.
“If the worst were to happen and we as a civilization were to crash as a result of climate change, this would be the indestructible box and record every detail of it,” Curtis said.
“So whoever is left, or who finds it later, learns from our mistakes.”
The 10-metre-tall steel monolith was designed to withstand natural disasters and will be powered by solar and thermal energy.
The device, which will be connected to the Internet, will use algorithms to routinely scrape climate change-related data using a set of 500 metrics and store it automatically.
This storage will be filled with drives that contain climate-change-related data such as average temperatures and global energy consumption.
Inspired by the flight recorder of an airplane, the “Earth’s Black Box” will be built in 2022 on the far west coast of Tasmania, considered to be geographically and politically stable, from its manufacturer, the marketing communications company clemenger bbdo till University of Tasmania, said in a statement.
This comes after UN climate talks Glasgow Last month ended with a deal that kept hopes alive of capping global warming at 1.5 Celsius.
“The Earth Black Box is a structure and tool that will record every step that humanity takes toward or away from an impending climate catastrophe,” Jim said. curtis, executive creative director at Clemenger BBDO, who came up with the idea for the black box.
He said the box would not only provide the world with a wealth of data on climate change, the information recorded would help hold leaders accountable and leave lessons for generations to come.
“If the worst were to happen and we as a civilization were to crash as a result of climate change, this would be the indestructible box and record every detail of it,” Curtis said.
“So whoever is left, or who finds it later, learns from our mistakes.”
The 10-metre-tall steel monolith was designed to withstand natural disasters and will be powered by solar and thermal energy.
The device, which will be connected to the Internet, will use algorithms to routinely scrape climate change-related data using a set of 500 metrics and store it automatically.
This storage will be filled with drives that contain climate-change-related data such as average temperatures and global energy consumption.
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