Center for the Study of Force Majeure or the Transformation of Our Civilization

Helena and Newton Harrison, San Francisco Bay (2010). Formation of an internal lagoon in the Central Valley of California after a projected 300 cm sea level rise.

The interconnected global challenges we face today clearly indicate that we are living in a time of profound crisis and a major civilizational shift that is related to the transformation of our entire planetary system. According to pioneers of ecological art, husband and wife Helena and Newton Harrison, the processes of entropy that we have set in motion during millennia of human civilization are culminating in most terrestrial ecosystems today in the form of unpredictable…