Model Time and Target Years : On the End of Time in IPCC Futures

The temporalities of the Anthropocene have focused on the past. This chapter argues that examining the temporalities of the future is of great importance as they relate to the overall discourse on how to act in the present. Analyzing the visual representations of the simulated futures in the assessments from the IPCC, in particular the fixed target year of 2100, the author identifies a trope of a vanishing future and puts it in relation to ideas of carbon budgets, which bring the end closer.
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