The Source: City of Yarra installs Climate Change countdown clock in Edinburgh Gardens
The City of Yarra has spent $18,000 installing a Climate Change countdown clock predicting when the world will end in Edinburgh Gardens.
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Putting the squeeze on Victoria’s movers, shakers and headline makers
The world will end in 2030 according to a Doomsday Clock artwork now at the centre of Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy.
The art structure, solar-powered of course, is mounted on a plinth that once housed a statue of Queen Victoria. (The plinth had previously been the location for a 1.5m golden worm but that’s a whole other Yarra story.)
The project called Dead Zone was funded by $18,000 from the City of Yarra and created by Melbourne artist Yandell Watson.
The clock is counting down to 2030 because that’s when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that emissions need to be reduced enough to cap global warming at 1.5C.
The Source has long been a fan of crazy Yarra - just think of the city’s saddest playground, the banana statue and flying flags of countries that no longer exist - but a climate change doomsday artwork in hipster central is peak Yarra.
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Originally published as The Source: City of Yarra installs Climate Change countdown clock in Edinburgh Gardens
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