Echoing Contradiction

Squarzoni has changed. He decided to go to New York and Montana with Camille. Why did he choose to zoom past two years? What happened during them?

We are introduced to a new climatologist engineer. The glare of his glasses makes one side look empty. It looks like something is missing. Why did Squarzoni choose to depict him as this? From this interviewee, we know that he is still working on his climate change project. He is a perfectionist after all.

On page 238, another apocalyptic image is depicted. It focuses on a father carrying his child in flooded water. The child is looking back. The future is looking back at the past.

Squarzoni is over his chicken without its head phase. He talks of a split personality – the contradiction between our material desires and preserving the planet. This is further reflected on page 243. We see Squarzoni – one eye is closed, another is open. This echoes the contradiction.

He admits his obsession over climate change was a phase. It cannot continue for two years. Finally. But this realization seems annoying coming from Squarzoni. I believe this is because he wallowed for so long about climate change and now realizes he doesn’t want to change his materialistic lifestyle. I feel this is an insult to those people who dedicated their lives to the environment. I find Squarzoni incredibly annoying right now.

Squarzoni has a more realist way of seeing things as depicted by the illustration on page 251. There is too much going on to truly notice things. It is something we think about for a little while and then return to our normal lives. This is so annoying coming from him.