400 parts per million

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Published on Tuesday, 12 May 2015 12:00

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LeftStreamed — May 2015

400 ppm

A very blue music-video about global warming and climate crisis by Bill Carroll.

In January 2015, scientists recorded atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide above 400 parts per million (ppm) on a regular basis – the first time such a level had been detected so early in the calendar year. It is well established that levels of CO2 above 350 (already well above the preindustrial norm of 275 ppm) spur global warming. We are now experiencing the effects: extreme weather, droughts, rising sea levels, thawing permafrost, etc. Levels above 450 will most likely put the planet on an inescapable course toward catastrophic climate change.

“400 ppm” is an eco-political music-video which encapsulates climate crisis and climate justice in three minutes flat. It is an intervention in popular political ecology/economy, aimed at those who are uneasy with the increasingly obvious deterioration of the living systems of which we are an inextricable part.

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