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As a leading environmental artist, Anne de Carbuccia has for the last decade artistically portrayed and documented human | dG1fNVVZLXJsWkVNbWM
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00:00 In 2013, I began photographing these installations that I call time signs to document how our
00:10 planet was changing.
00:11 From the Earth's tallest peaks to the ocean floor, scientists worry no part of the world
00:12 will be spared from the climate crisis.
00:13 I think we all need to understand that the solution to this is not trying to make it
00:14 better, it's trying to make it better.
00:15 We're learning how to use it controllably and ethically, you know.
00:37 I wanted to show what we have, what we're about to lose, and especially what we've already
00:52 lost.
01:00 We ingest five grams of plastic each week.
01:05 I discovered so many worlds along the way.
01:09 From the highest peaks of the Himalaya to the depths of our underworld.
01:15 Everywhere I went, I found the same story, one story.
01:24 A lot of the people that I encountered were on the front line.
01:28 They were adapting to a new world.
01:33 And all these forms right now has an extra duty, like a civic duty, to remind us of who
01:40 we are.
01:41 And when you love what you really like, you can discover that there's not just one thing
02:02 that you can do.
02:11 (dramatic music)

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