Douglas Adams' iconic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy deals flippantly with apocalypse and disaster. In real life, a new World Meteorological Organization report indicates a 50-50 chance the world will surpass the "critical threshold" for global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius. Not even Douglas Adams could write a joke this dark.
Reuters: World could see 1.5C of warming in next five years, May 10, 2022.
BBC: Past seven years hottest on record, EU satellite data shows, January 10, 2022.
The Economist: See what three degrees of global warming looks like, October 7, 2021.
About Alexandra Bowman
Alexandra Bowman is World War Zero's cartoonist in residence. She is a political cartoonist and satirist, creating work with The Lincoln Project and environmental newsletter Our Daily Planet. Bowman's illustrations have been published by BBC News, BBC Books, Puffin Books, the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service, the National Wildlife Federation, and Penguin Random House UK. As a rising senior at Georgetown University, she is double majoring in English and Art and will be graduating early with a Master's in English in May 2023. Bowman also founded The Hilltop Show, a political comedy webseries run by over 50 undergraduate and graduate student members from around the world, and serves as its host and Lead Satirical Writer.
