Remember that movie with Justin Timberlake and he’s running around with a watch that tells him the time he‘s got left? — Oh. You haven’t seen it? Well, I suggest you get really high and watch it. It’s hilarious. But if you don’t have the time for that, don’t worry. It’s become reality! As of last Monday, two artist have installed an exhibit in New York City known as The Climate Clock— it’s a 60ft digital clock that doesn’t tell time. haha, no. It tells us the time remaining. *gulp* We’re all Justin Timberlake, now.

Okay. So what do we do? Well. In Justin Timberlakes movie— if I remember correctly— time is currency. He, ehh, runs around the entire film trying to… prolong the inevitable… or something? I actually don’t remember. Honestly, I fell asleep in the middle, but I think the moral of the story goes, hey, time is precious, live it up, yolo. Which is cute, or whatever. But by the end of the movie— I was pressed. My head kept buzzing with lil’ thoughts like time’s all we got! or, Time’s runnin’ out! and, SHIT! I gotta do something. Anything! We’re all gonna die!! Mhmm. Which I’m pretty sure is what the creators of The Climate Clock are goin’ for. Except this ain’t a movie, folks. This is real. Our planet is like, dying dying. Like, fo’ realzies this time.

“This Earth has a deadline” read the clock before ten red numbers appeared– 7:103:15:40:07– representing years, days, hours, minutes, and seconds left until the effects of global warming become irreversible. Again, I repeat. IR•RE•VER•SI•BLE. This number is based on calculations by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in Berlin. The two creators of The Climate Clock, Gan Golan and Andrew Boyd thought we should know.

“This is our way to shout that number from the rooftops.” Golan said just before the countdown started. “The world is literally counting on us.”

So, Golan and Boyd created a website, climateclock.world that includes an explanation for the Climate Clock numbers, in case y’all wanna go check it out for yourselves. They also include a link to the report by the IPCC, who stated back in 2018 that global warming is likely to increase 1.5°C by 2030 if carbon emissions don’t quit. And if that happens… I mean sure, 1.5° doesn’t sound that bad. But that’s 35°F. That’s— that would mean by 2030, our average temperatures will be well into the 100’s. Icebergs will go extinct. Forests will become desert. I’m not trying to scare you. These are facts. If we don’t do something about climate change within the next 7 years, our reality will become a hellscape. And I don’t know ‘bout you but I didn’t watch that Justin Timberlake movie for nothin’. Times runnin’ out— move it, people!

“You can’t argue with science,” Boyd said on Saturday. “You just have to reckon with it.”