A steel vault about the size of a school bus is being built in a remote part of Australia. It will listen to what we say. It will create an archive that will be critical to figuring out the mistakes if humanity is destroyed by climate change.
The vault will be built in the Australian island state of Tasmania. It will be like a plane's flight recorder, which records an aircraft's final moments before crashing. The makers of the new black box hope it won't have to be opened.
The executive creative director of the Australian advertising agency where the project was conceived said he didn't want the plane to crash. I hope it is not too late.
Many questions remain, such as whether Earth really needs a black box and how will future generation decipher it. The box would be designed to hold our leaders to account. The box will survive if civilization crashes.
At the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November, all countries agreed that they needed to act quickly to prevent a catastrophic rise in world temperatures. The risk of disasters like water shortages, heat waves, and ecosystems collapsing will increase if they rise beyond a threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius. The world has warmed by 1.1 degrees.
Some thought of a black box.
The project is not the only one trying to shock people out of thinking about global warming. It's not the first time that pieces of human civilization have been salvaged. Some of the things scientists have built repositories for are already extinct. Others have tried to hide our nuclear waste so that we don't have to.
The creators of the box say it will be able to record leaders' actions by using the internet to find climate change related words. Average land and ocean temperatures, carbon dioxide concentration, and biodiversity loss will be collected daily.
The vault is made of three-inch thick steel and is not expected to be finished until the middle of next year. They say they have begun to gather information. Eventually, the data will be stored on a giant, automated, solar-powered hard drive with a capacity to collect information for about 50 years.
The monolith will be designed to be resistant to threats such as earthquakes and vandals, and it was chosen for its relative environmental safety.
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The box is meant to illuminate what led to catastrophe, even if it is more devastating than before.
David Midson, general manager of the local council, said the response from residents to the project had been positive.
Mr. Midson said that though permits were yet to be approved, he was optimistic.
Some scientists don't think climate change will wipe us out completely.
It would be a mistake to confuse the effects of climate change with the extinction risk they pose to humans, says Noah Diffenbaugh, a climate scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.
There is no evidence that global warming threatens the survival of the human species.
If humans don't reduce greenhouse gas emissions, there's a chance that some places will disappear below sea level, others will become too hot for humans to live in, and other places will become more prone to storms.
Climate change data is already being recorded by scientists.
Daniel Kevles, a historian of science at Yale University, said that the black box is not easy to understand. It may have some merit as a document for the future, but I am not impressed with the impact it has on warning us.
The creators insist that the information is not stored in a single place.
Future visitors will not know how to retrieve the contents of the box.
The creators are working on it. One option is to use a script or code that would be unraveling. The creators say that if the planet is about to go into cataclysm, the instructions for opening the box would be etched on its exterior. They say that the message can't be included because of the risk that vandals would attempt to open it.
The production company that is managing the project is based in Australia. Mr. Ritchie said that people are on notice and that they want to make sure that they don't crash.
