Artists and Sustainability - A New Frame on The Vexed Question of Climate Change

Last month Edward Burtynsky featured as our visual artist and we had some great responses to his work. As a result, we decided to feature this wonderful video, made by Burtynsky and Yann Martel (author of Life of Pi) as an example of how art has the potential to make us look at climate change in a more connected way. Whether you are a climate change skeptic or not,these artists have found a way of expressing the cultural importance of the way we have created the world in which we live and in so doing ask the vital question - is this the type of progress we want and if not, how might we think about changing the outcome?

"laggards and obstructionists"

That, according to Andrew Weaver, climate expert, IPCC contributor and author of Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World, is Canadians’ international reputation is when it comes to climate change. Whether or not you care about our reputation, you should care about what our country is doing in reference to climate change. If you expect to live at least another decade, you will feel its effects economically, socially, and psychologically. Your children, if you have any, will suffer its direct impact, and the lives of your grandchildren will be nightmarish. If I could only write about one thing, it would be climate change/global warming.

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