Artefacts of a
Burning World

Opinionated collection of 52 articles, films, podcasts and other artefacts related to the climate crisis.

Photograph

Diablo IV advertising with wildfire smoke

By Nick Newman

Nick Newman.

Nick Newman captures a billboard advertising the release of the new Diablo IV computer game while New York is being hit by heavy smoke from wildfire smoke in Canada.

Same topics: The Cooled vs. the Cooked; Wildfires Rage Across Southern Europe; “I hate how pretty the end of the world is.”; Jevons Paradox; Photographs of the Pyrocene; Greta Thunberg at the Houses of Parliament, United Kingdom; How Disaster Media Fails; How Air-Conditioning Conquered America; Overview of mitigation options and their estimated ranges of costs and potentials in 2030; Quick—tell us who you’re wearing!; Fall of Civilizations; Looks like Congress might finally do something about TikTok.; Schiefe Bilder als Klimaprotest; Climate change conversations during live commentary; The Sunday Read: ‘What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay’

Same formats: It made me cry; The Cooled vs. the Cooked; Wildfires Rage Across Southern Europe; The Scale of China’s Solar-Power Projects; Photographs of the Pyrocene; Aftermath of Typhoon Yagi in Haikou, China; The Oldest Living Things in the World; Bagger 288 in Lützerath

Same publisher: It made me cry; Climate change conversations during live commentary; Bagger 288 in Lützerath