The Bureau of Environmental Security has published a web comic and video on the origins of the global environmental agency.

Readers like you love origin stories. The Bureau of Environmental Security has published a web comic and a video that explains how a global disaster led to the agency’s creation. Here’s the short version: When an illegal effort to mine methyl hydrates (a form of methane) on the ocean floor goes wrong, millions of tons of the gas explode into the atmosphere, causing temperatures to rise almost overnight.

Called “The Spike” by survivors because of the way the release appears on measurement graphs, the disaster brought the world together to ban fossil fuels and beef up policing of all types of pollution. Today, under the Port Vila Treaty, BES inspectors and agents enforce the Carbon Laws, fight illegal carbon smuggling, and educate the public about sustainability and approved energy sources for vehicles and buildings.

Saving Planet Earth

Titled “Saving Planet Earth: The Story of the Bureau of Environmental Security,” the web comic is available today on the BES home page and on its own dedicated page. Hosted by the BES’s public information officer, Katelyn Morris, the comic is also available on the BES YouTube channel. I’m the narrator. My daughter Abbey Follansbee assisted with the voice work. Click the thumbnail below to go directly to the video.

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