Decline Denial, 2022

Amy Lynn Bumpus
Ink and Paper Collage

Decline Denial was a result of my frustration knowing we will not come close to meeting the goal of the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to not more than 2 degrees Celsius by the year 2100. In the years after the agreement, our time frame has shortened. Our influences on our planet are now so extreme we have created a new geologic era- The Anthropocene – viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on the climate and environment. We are just one of many species on this earth. Yet, we have managed to negatively change the intricate workings of our planet on it’s evolutionary journey.