The Plague refers to the dual crisis of the current economy and the environment. Set in an international airport, it portrays various contemporary and historical characters. Grouped in the front are various corporate types, representing the contemporary follies of financial capital. At the back of the image, on the left side, are characters representing the major historic financial crises (bubbles), beginning with the Medici Bank in the 15th century and progressing through the major downturns of the 1720s and 1870s, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the start of the current crisis in the 1980s. Behind the corporate figures are historic economists and environmentalists, from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to Milton Friedman and Rachel Carson. On the other side of the image are the people who suffer the consequences of and also resist ongoing economic and environmental devastation. A whirlwind of frogs blows through the airport, referencing both the Biblical plague of frogs and the fact that frogs are an environmental indicator species.