This massive projection system features powerful visuals of an iceberg slowly crashing down the sides of the building, intended to bring the remoteness of Antarctica to urban New York. Messages from young climate change supporters line the building in several different languages, bringing together the feeling of unity across the globe. And what better place to express unity, than on the United Nations Headquarters.
Some of the quotes from the messages on the building can be read below:
“Everything needs to change, and it has to start today” – Greta Thunberg
“The climate crisis and my future are synonymous. It’s about surviving. For all of us it’s about being responsible with this planet that we’re so privileged to be on” – Ahmed Badr, a former refugee.
“Currently we are spending billions to help polluters with global fossil fuel subsidies – globally air pollution from fossils fuels kills more people than smoking” – El Mehdi Zairi, from Morocco for Africa
“I’ve already experienced climate change – the wildfires my hometown was covered in smoke and it was hard to breathe” – Sasha Shugai, from Russia for Asia
“When I was a child, I could not imagine that we would inherit the earth in such a state” – Sasha Shugai
“It is very sad, we’ve killed and burned the trees, but also polluted the whole atmosphere, we are killing our habitat and all that life herein. This issue is not only about the Amazon, this is about Peru and also the world” – Karen Miluzca Pérez Panduro, from Peru for South America
