Luke Fazekas, 20XX (PEOPLE 2025)

In cities across the globe, checking daily air quality now mirrors the routine of checking the weather. Climate change accelerates, not only raising temperatures and triggering extreme weather but also increasingly toxic air. Warmer conditions heighten allergens, increase ground-level ozone, and trap pollutants at street level. Breathing becomes hazardous. 20XX imagines a future disturbingly familiar. Industrial-grade respirators. Air-filtering face masks. No longer symbols of dystopia, now daily essentials.

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