Climate Crisis
The climate crisis is happening now and it is happening because of us. As we use more resources, we are harming the environment by releasing gases into the atmosphere and making it hot — known as the Greenhouse Effect. As this happens, the balance in the atmosphere is disrupted, causing the average global temperature to change with devastating effects. 

The changes we have already seen have drastic consequences, including more severe floods, hurricanes, wildfires, and droughts. These are known as climate stressors — factors that add a layer of strain on people’s livelihoods. We are running out of time to change the rules, to change how we live our everyday lives, so that we can save the planet and the people who live here.

Impacts on People
People experience the climate crisis in a range of ways, from worsening poverty and making areas unlivable to unreliable access to power and water. 

While the climate crisis affects or will affect all of our everyday lives, it affects us differently. Pre-existing inequalities mean that some people are better able  to adapt than others. 

Where one family might have the luxury of packing all of their belongings and moving away from extreme weather events before they become extreme, another family might have no choice but to wait

What makes a home?
There are roughly 1.6 billion homes around the world. But what happens to the home when you are forced to move? What makes a home?

Whatever home might be for you, it has an important place in your life. It facilitates your way of living, contributes to your unique idea of space, and is there by your side throughout all different stages of life — the planned and the unexpected.

How
The Climate Breakdown web platform engages a global audience to make the connection between You/Me/We to our homes, and how it all ties into the bigger picture in the face of the global crisis and its stressors. It is a tool to better explain and understand global patterns of migration, while remaining optimistic about taking action and becoming more aware of our individual roles and shared responsibility. Leaving us all with more insight and understanding on the global situation, with an idea how it affects us personally, and how we can partake in aiding to a better outcome.

Climate stressors
A key concept we developed for the Climate Breakdown is the concept of what we refer to as Climate Stressors, which we define as pressures or dynamics that impact or compromise the ecosystem at various scales, and can have local to global effects. 

The interface combines these stressors in its visualisation of the impact, and they can both be explored individually as well as in their aggregated dimension.