Opinion | An Artist Rethinks Climate Change in Words and Pictures
At some think tank somewhere, guys with pocket protectors and knotted brows are asking their computer models questions like: “If global carbon emissions peak by 2030 and sea-level rise is 1.6 meters by 2050, how many people along the Eastern Seaboard are likely to drown in storm surges, and what will the effect be on national GDP to relocate the re
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We need to show people that facing our climate future is not the end of the line. People are afraid of being paralyzed by despair. But that’s not what happens. Or, at least, that’s not what happens for long. Also, it’s critical to provide people opportunities
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Human nature requires catastrophes to jolt us into change—but with some catastrophes, notably climate change, by the time that happens it may be too late.
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Climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination. – Amitav Ghosh, Author.
However, cinematographic representations of climate change, like Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, have sometimes been less cautious, portraying a polar bear clinging to life in the Arctic, or South Florida and Lower Manhattan flooding over.44 Films like these are not necessarily a good representation of the scientific consensus.