It arrived not as revelation but as a slow unease many recognize. Climate headlines and clear science left me in informed paralysis — a bystander. In India, with erratic monsoons and crushing heat, that passivity felt untenable.
During my Master’s at the National Institute of Design I asked: why does collective climate inaction persist, and what can a designer do to break numbness? Carbon Block grew from that curiosity, not as an answer, but as a probe to confront my own bystander-ness and test how design can shift perception and behavior.
This post begins a series on that journey. Narrating the first research labyrinth: psychological and social causes of our inertia, awkward truths I found, and the core questions that framed the problem.