My Climate Clock Idea
For about a year now I’ve had this idea to create a single page website featuring a large clock, counting down the time we have left until some sort of catastrophic global event caused by climate change.
Basically a combination of the national debt clock, the doomsday clock and a death clock.
The goal would be show the effects of climate change in very real terms, helping build awareness of the effects climate change and hopefully urge people to take action. Since most people would prefer not to know their date of death, I figure even a rough estimation would be a powerful motivator.
The city of San Jose is planning to build a physical clock, but one problem, it would be in downtown San Jose. Not exactly the hub of cultural activity. I figure, why not have it be online for all in the world to see? After all, climate change is a burden we all have to bare.
Having put a lot of thought into the idea and having done a fair amount of research, I’ve found a number of problems in coming up with a formula. What is so disturbing to me is that the problems I’ve found are the same problems that any initiative to help increase awareness in climate change would likely face.
I don’t know how the world can come together to solve the climate change problem without better information and tools to understanding the problem and the potential effects. So today being Earth Day I figured why not share some of the problems I’ve come across in trying to build a Climate Clock.
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