- Overlapse 2025
- Hardback, 1st edition, 160p
- New
In recent years, climate disasters have caused exponentially more damage to communities through loss of life, property, and compounding economic destruction. As these disasters increase, it is unknown whether affected communities will continue to rebuild with an outlook of uncertainty, or if the worst affected regions of the country will be forgotten. Residents face the prospect of escaping to settle in ‘safer’ areas or stay and try to navigate diminishing federal assistance programs and insurance coverage.
Sound the Sirens encompasses the long-term effects that climate disasters have on communities across the United States, with tens of thousands of people left homeless and displaced while trying to rebuild their lives. Despite decades of warnings by climate scientists about the impact of rising temperatures on the stability of our planet, climate data is now broadly ignored in the service of capital and convenience, while risking the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
Folded between the book pages, underlying images of solar flares with orange hues leak out from within. This design experience is a reminder of the driving forces behind climate disaster, with pictures of devastation tinged with the glow of ever-growing heat.
