![]() Leland discussed how the city will be affected by a two-degree increase in global temperatures, the upper limit set forth by the Paris climate deal. So far, Leland’s stickers have been put up in more than a dozen cities around the world. He explained, “The Midwest is fucked, too.”) ![]() (He hopes to pursue a related project, called This Place Will Be Desert. Using six thousand dollars, raised mostly on Kickstarter, he designed and printed eight thousand stickers that say “This Place Will Be Water.” They’re available for purchase on, which has an interactive map showing how sea-level rise will impact coastal cities. Last summer, he set about formulating the “simple, stark messaging” that he believes the climate-change movement needs. And yet he watched “the machinery of international politics do everything it could to not change.” Security Council meeting and heard a former President of Nauru speak about losing his island country to rising seas. ![]() ![]() Closing his laptop, he took a break to discuss another passion: “scaring people about climate change.” Leland has had this preoccupation since 2011, when he attended a U.N. “It’s about being a cicada emerging from seventeen years underground,” he explained. On a recent chilly Saturday, Jon Leland, a director at Kickstarter, sat in a SoHo coffee shop writing a guided meditation for an upcoming sound festival. ![]()
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