
Earth's Black Box is a project led by marketing firm Clemenger BBDO and the University of Tasmania. It's pictured here in an artist's impression

The exact location of the box is unspecified, but it will reportedly be situated about four hours from the city of Hobart, somewhere near the western coast, between Strahan and Queenstown
'Unless we dramatically transform our way of life, climate change and other man-made perils will cause our civilization to crash,' it says. 'Earth's Black Box will record every step we take towards this catastrophe.
'Hundreds of data sets, measurements and interactions relating to the health of our planet will be continuously collected and safely stored for future generations.'
Developers estimate it will have enough capacity to store data for the next 30 to 50 years, which is a key period for our quest to contain climate change.
Once active, the Black Box will also be recording 'backwards' as well as forwards – in other words, obtaining data that's dated months before it was switched on.
Its developers are as yet unable to provide an exact description of how human survivors could access its data post-apocalypse.

Earth's Black Box is a project led by marketing firm Clemenger BBDO in collaboration with the University of Tasmania
It's possible anyone who comes across it will have to have the 'capability of understanding and interpreting basic symbolism,' the developers told ABC.
An electronic reader could potentially reactivate the box if it has entered a long-term dormant state as a result of catastrophe – for example, a 'Mad Max' type post-apocalyptic situation.
It'll be built to survive any kind of climate catastrophe, but until then it could just be a tourist attraction for rural Tasmania, or a marketing stunt on behalf of Clemenger BBDO.
Either way, scientists are routinely predicting a 'climate apocalypse' could occur in as little as the next 100 years due to humanity failing to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

It will capture scientific data on temperature, sea levels and atmospheric CO2 to provide a document to human survivors of how humanity failed to avoid catastrophic climate change. Pictured, Australian fire crews extinguish a fire that crossed the Monaro Highway near Bredbo, New South Wales, February 2, 2020
Rising temperatures, dwindling food supplies and biodiversity loss brought on by climate changes could trigger global systemic collapse.
According to a landmark UN report earlier this year, Earth is likely to warm by 2.7°F within the next 20 years – a decade earlier than previously expected.
Last week, Climate Change Committee said the world does 'not come close' to achieving the aims of the Paris Agreement to limit climate change.
This Paris Agreement, adopted in 2016, aims to hold an increase in global average temperature to below 3.6ºF (2°C) and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 2.7°F (1.5°C).
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