In imagining alternative worlds, artists can lead the way on climate change, making us challenge the way we liveThose attending the COP24 climate negotiations in Katowice, Poland, this week have been greeted by a bizarre sight: an artistic celebration of one of the main fuels responsible for destroying the global climate. Katowice is the centre of Poland's coal industry, and despite hosting a conference that represents the last chance saloon when it comes to taking meaningful action on climate change, local politicians pride themselves on the black stuff. Perhaps we could have expected no different when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change decided on such an inappropriate venue and to allow coal companies to sponsor the talks.If we do make it through climate change with some form of civilisation intact, we will look back at some of the things we are doing now with the moral repugnance we feel towards slavery. There are legitimate parallels here. Climate change will most hurt those yet to be born. Our failure to make the dramatic changes needed to our economy and society means we are behaving as if we own the lives of future generations and have a right to steal their lives from them. Continue reading...
Banishing fossil fuel sponsorship of the arts makes clear economic sense | Molly Scott Cato
12. prosinece 2018 18:31
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/12/fossil-fuel-sponsorship-arts-climate-change
Zdroj: The Guardian