Weather offill6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Tiny individual choices are not going to turn the planet around and send new greenery shooting up across the continents, even if we can convince people to undertake them. (Soon, we’ll have so many jellyfish in our acidic ocean that we’ll need to start eating them - or turning them into tampons.) A disturbingly soothing voice trickles in over the loudspeakers, offering suggestions for sustainable clothing fibers. She chuckles at the broad advice plastered on the walls (“Our choices matter!”), wryly countering with the most damning facts she knows about the climate crisis. Jenny Offill is wandering through Arcadia Earth, an “immersive, augmented reality journey through Planet Earth” in downtown Manhattan - the museum’s words, not hers. ![]() Arcadia Earth, an immersive climate-change museum in downtown Manhattan. ![]()
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