A significant problem percolates through all this melting ice: the decomposable modularity of our languages, technologies and organisational systems remains functionally unable to comprehensively or sustainably address the complexity or scale of this issue.
Subsequently, we find ourselves inhabiting and endlessly replicating media tropes of hollow platitudes and inherited generalisations that are simply not sophisticated enough to represent or even begin to interdict anything at global scales or with the urgency required.
Climate change represents a wicked problem of and for strategic communication and design. Just what would a unified, global “system of systems” model of ecology and socioeconomy look like?