From dying forests, over melted ice to a decaying Hollywood-Sign in a dried up desert – gallows beauty might be the best description of the diverse blocks.Īfter the paint had had some time to dry, the tower was built up just in time for the closing party of the Climate Camp. Many people of all ages from the Climate Camp joined us, read some info about their Tipping Element and then got the chance to creatively design a visualization of it. On our Giant Jenga Tower we decided to make a total of 33 blocks, to have a nice tall tower, which also gave us a lot of freedom with the tipping elements: each could have at least one block to represent them, and then we still had 17 blocks for some of the cool tipping elements, like the rainforest or the coral reefs, to be drawn on multiple blocks! Their large-scale environmental impacts could endanger the livelihood of millions of people!
Tipping elements are components of the Earth system with a threshold behaviour: As they are getting unstable, small perturbations can make them shift to a new regime or even collapse - either gradually or abruptly! Moreover, their exact threshold is unknown, bringing uncertainties in the time at which that regime shift will happen - adding to the analogy with the Jenga game. So did we, and thus we created a giant version of the Jenga game to represent Earth’s tipping elements and how disturbing them will result in the collapse of the whole system. Pretty metaphorical for the climate, don’t you think? The difficulty lies in avoiding its collapse as the tower gets increasingly unstable over the course of the game, every time a block is moved! Jenga is a board game where players remove one block at a time, and pile them on top, from a tower built of, traditionally, 54 blocks. During the Rebellion Wave October 2019, the Comic Science group gave a workshop at the Climate Camp called Earth Jenga.
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