The 6 degree scenario Painting

When the 6 degree scenario strikes on coastal areas and cities like Dublin and Copenhagen, not much will be left from the flooding from the sea, from groundwater, from rivers and from cloudbursts. The world can be on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century. Such a rise – which would be much higher nearer the poles – would have cataclysmic and irreversible consequences for the Earth, making large parts of the planet uninhabitable and threatening the basis of human civilisation. Finnegan's Wake also announces a new era, an apocalyptic scenario of death and destruction. The thunderclap found on the first page of Finnegans Wake also has its origins in Vico New Science filosophy. The giants that roam the world in Vico’s divine age are frightened by thunder, attributing it not to a natural phenomenon but to something supernatural: the god's. This drives them to seek shelter in caves, the beginning of human settlement. Settlement brings with it other necessities, like marriage and the burial of the dead. The final age, the human age, is characterised by the barbarism of reflection and individuals thinking only for themselves without any concern for society as a whole. This in turn results in a return to primitivism and a return to or recurrence (ricorso) of the beginning of the cycle. Some filosophers belive that we are in an age of the eternal return, an age or transgression, metamorphosis, and mutation. This painting is a nightmare dream, of the 6 degree scenario: "In a time when the notion of ‘borders’ and ‘boundaries’ has become a question not only of bodies, but of race, gender, life and death, and survival at the edge of time and civilization; as we ponder this sense of fear and terror in politics over national and economic boundaries and borders; as we confront the death of oceans, forests, deserts, and the agricultural belts of the planet; as we enter an age when the boundaries between the have’s and have not’s becomes more and more desperate and the grotesque fear of the Other enters the dark declivities of old animosities and ambiguities of religious and ideological hostility; as we ponder these and the very meaning of the boundary and borders between the human and non-humane.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:31.5 W x 39.4 H x 1.2 D in

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