Global panic: art show Exit brings climate change to shocking life
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen from on (#VXA7)
Timed to coincide with the COP21 UN conference in Paris, this video installation is a stark reality check for Earth's inhabitants as sea levels rise, natural disasters proliferate and forced migration multiplies
There are more than 19.5 million refugees worldwide, cities are emitting 70% of all greenhouses gases and around 3,500 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, find it difficult to relate to data - no matter how shocking the numbers.
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