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'Black box' to hold world accountable for climate crisis is being built

The Independent
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An 'indestructible' black box will be built in 2022 to hold the world accountable for the Earth's future, by recording humanity's handling of the climate change crisis. The 'Earth's Black Box' will be a self-powered data storage device to be built in the remote west coast of Tasmania and was first conceptualised by a creative agency in Australia. University of Tasmania has come on board to collaborate on the project which was inspired by an aeroplane's flight recorder. The project comes after U.N. climate talks in Glasgow ended in November with a deal that kept alive hopes of capping global warming at 1.5 Celsius. Like us on Facebook:   / theindependentonline   Follow us on Twitter:   / independent   Follow us on Instagram:   / the.independent   Subscribe to Independent Premium for exclusive content and live events: https://bit.ly/2MiOONB ...more
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holding humanity to account for how it handles...

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the climate crisis from now on

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It's a concept design for a self-powered storage device...

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that will record a wealth of data around how Earth...

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is steering away (or towards) a worsening climate situation...

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using an algorithm to regularly scrape data on climate change...

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such as average temperatures and global energy consumption

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Jim Curtis Clemenger BBDO

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The 10-metre-long steel casing has been designed...

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in collaboration with the University of Tasmania...

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to handle any potential natural disasters...

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and will be powered by solar and thermal energy

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'Black box' to hold world accountable for climate crisis is being built
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2021Dec 7
An 'indestructible' black box will be built in 2022 to hold the world accountable for the Earth's future, by recording humanity's handling of the climate change crisis. The 'Earth's Black Box' will be a self-powered data storage device to be built in the remote west coast of Tasmania and was first conceptualised by a creative agency in Australia. University of Tasmania has come on board to collaborate on the project which was inspired by an aeroplane's flight recorder. The project comes after U.N. climate talks in Glasgow ended in November with a deal that kept alive hopes of capping global warming at 1.5 Celsius. Like us on Facebook:   / theindependentonline   Follow us on Twitter:   / independent   Follow us on Instagram:   / the.independent   Subscribe to Independent Premium for exclusive content and live events: https://bit.ly/2MiOONB

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The Independent

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