2024-05-19T20:16:11-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150290667/our-coming-apocalypse-is-now-being-recorded-thanks-to-this-new-intervention Josh Niland 2021-12-09T13:37:00-05:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/7b/7b5ab22f74b0dc7ef6c738ad135ddcbe.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>A digital record of earth&rsquo;s man-made demise is about to begin thanks to an intervention in Australia called <a href="https://www.earthsblackbox.com/" target="_blank">Earth's Black Box</a>.</p> <p>A remote part of Tasmania is the home of the ominous new steel box that&rsquo;s meant to capture and record climate data such as oceanic acidification, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, and land and sea temperature increases in addition to information about <a href="https://www.theworldcounts.com/populations/world/10-billion-people" target="_blank">population growth</a>, energy use, and newspaper stories related to climate change.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>The box runs on a combination of batteries and solar power and can collect the data thanks to an algorithm that was developed by the communications firm Clemenger BBDO with the help from the University of Tasmania, and the artist collective <a href="https://gluesociety.com/" target="_blank">Glue Society</a>, which had help from architects Thomas Bailey and Kate Philipps of Room11.<br></p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/59/593b03d85f74d6e4768f06446ae737b0.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/59/593b03d85f74d6e4768f06446ae737b0.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image: Earth's Black Box</figcaption></figure><p>&ldquo;The idea is if the Earth does crash as a result of climate change, this indestructible recording device will be there for whoever's left to learn from that,&rdquo; Clemenger&rsquo;s Jim Curtis ...</p>