In preparation for the Paris climate talks, comics artist, educator, and Unflattening author Nick Sousanis contributed a comic to a special issue of the journal Nature. Titled The Fragile Framework and co-authored with longtime climate writer Richard Monastersky, the comic examines the 25-year quest for a global climate treaty.
As the work brings readers through the disappointments of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the shortcomings of the subsequently-enacted Kyoto Protocol, and the failure of the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations, the complicated politics give way to the devastating realities of a warming planet.
The comic, the first panels of which are below, is available for download, will be printed in Nature, and was slated for distribution to attendees of the Paris talks, which began earlier today.