These Travel Posters Depict A Dystopian Future If The U.S. Ignores Climate Change

Rising sea levels have overtaken some of America’s most iconic landmarks in a series of mock travel posters released by a Boulder, Colorado-based marketing agency this week. The project offers a dark prediction of the country’s future if U.S. lawmakers ignore climate research. Designers at Walden Hyde created the posters for purchase a few years ago and re-released them on the firm’s website for free this week in anticipation of this weekend’s nationwide March for Science. Lucia Robinson, co-founder of Walden Hyde, designed the posters with the company’s art director, Stephanie Sizemore. She said activists are welcome to use the “fun free art” during demonstrations and hopes the project will drum up support for federal funding of climate science. “Climate change can be a really scary topic,” Robinson said. “It’s an issue that will increasingly impact every part of our lives both environmentally and socially.” The Environmental Protection Agency’s estimates for sea level rise by the end of the century range between 1 and 4 feet, with an uncertainty range of 0.66 to 6.6 feet. Some researchers argue that earlier predictions don’t sufficiently account for Antarctica’s melting ice and that a more accurate estimate is over 6 feet of sea level rise if greenhouse gas emissions don’t decrease. In one poster, a kayaker paddles his way through Utah’s iconic Arc...
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