This Person Will Not Exist

Written By Bernat Cuni

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Photos of people that will die/disappear/vanish due to climate crisis and anthropogenic hazards.

An environmental disaster or ecological disaster is defined as a catastrophic event regarding the natural environment that is due to human activity.[2] This point distinguishes environmental disasters from other disturbances such as natural disasters and intentional acts of war such as nuclear bombings.

Environmental disasters show how the impact of humans' alteration of the land has led to widespread and/or long-lasting consequences.[3] These disasters have included deaths of wildlife, humans and plants, or severe disruption of human life or health, possibly requiring migration.[4]

Environmental disasters historically have affected agriculture, biodiversity including wildlife, the economy and human health. The most common causes include pollution that seeps into groundwater or a body of water, emissions into the atmosphere and depletion of natural resources, industrial activity or agricultural practices.[5]

This is an alphabetical list of environmental issues, harmful aspects of human activity on the biophysical environment. They are loosely divided into causes, effects and mitigation, noting that effects are interconnected and can cause new effects.

Anthropogenic hazards are hazards caused by human action or inaction. They are contrasted with natural hazards. Anthropogenic hazards may adversely affect humans, other organisms, biomes, and ecosystems. They can even cause an omnicide. The frequency and severity of hazards are key elements in some risk analysis methodologies. Hazards may also be described in relation to the impact that they have. A hazard only exists if there is a pathway to exposure. As an example, the center of the earth consists of molten material at very high temperatures which would be a severe hazard if contact was made with the core. However, there is no feasible way of making contact with the core, therefore the center of the earth currently poses no hazard.

Anthropogenic hazards can be grouped into societal hazards (criminality, civil disorder, terrorism, war, industrial hazards, engineering hazards, power outage, fire), hazards caused by transportation and environmental hazards.

Not that we need more images of climate collapse and environmental disasters, but since AI is usually used to imagine nice optimistic scenarios, I used it here to highlight the peak stupidity moment we are in.

Inspired by the ThisPersonDoesNotExist site (that served as a StyleGAN demo and triggered an awakening for synthetic media in the general public).

The images have been produced with StableDiffusion, using a combinations of the following descriptive prompt: 

"A person in a climate disaster, with (wildfires, flood, drought, pollution, oil, microplastics, waste, misery, technical collapse) / photojournalism photo style”

oh, yes, I used technology, electricity and plastic to produce those images, well spotted.

  • solution? none

  • remedies? many: stop consuming / stop complaining / start fighting / go forward with nature

Bernat Cuni https://www.cunicode.com
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