Exploring The New Vernacular That Will Emerge as a Response to Climate Change

Since its installation in the late 1990s, a large clock in New York City’s Union Square has been counting up to 24 hours in each day with the number of hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds on display. However, the digital screen was recently repurposed as a Climate Clock and now projects the amount of time the world has left to take large-scale action on climate change- and the alarming truth, based on an IPCC Special Report on Global Warming counts down to only a little over seven years left until we reach the point of no return.

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Cite: Kaley Overstreet. "Exploring The New Vernacular That Will Emerge as a Response to Climate Change" 23 Oct 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/949924/exploring-the-new-vernacular-that-will-emerge-as-a-response-to-climate-change> ISSN 0719-8884

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