Climate change and the attempt to resolve the problems that have come up because of drastic changes in the environment have been topmost in people’s mind for quite some time now. Many people had thought that a definite solution would turn up at the recent conference on global climate change at Copenhagen but it ended quite disappointingly.

Something that every individual has to realise, however, even in the absence of amazing solutions to battle these changes and the various political obstructions to bringing about change, is that change can occur even in the most minimalistic form. Every person can contribute in his own way to healing the planet.

Mary Lin’s latest sculpture for the California Academy of Sciences is an invitation and a plea for every individual to realise this because the creatures that face the most adversities in the face of climate change are animals. The wooden sculpture shaped in the form of a listening cone implores everyone to listen to the pleas by helpless animals belonging to different species, many of whom no longer exist. The cone, titled What is Missing, includes a screen which plays video footage showing extinct and endangered species in their natural habitats.

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