Category: Climate Change

How Climate Changes Art

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This week we tackle the intersection of art and our changing climate. Throughout history, art has helped reveal the climate around us and highlight our fragile relationship to it. We look at navigational charts from the Marshall Islands, Katsushika Hokusai’s “Under the Wave off Kanagawa”, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “Hunters in the Snow”, Mali’s Great Mosque of Djenné, the Ise Shrine in Japan, steadily sinking Venice, the cave paintings of Lascaux, and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, among others.

How to Help The Environment

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If you understand the relationship between trees and climate change, if you learn how to observe the landscapes of your country with the eyes of a climate scientist; you will be better able to act upon it.

In this video we show you 3 basic signs in any landscape that point at evidence and causes of a changing climate: monocultures, bare soil and the lack of trees on mountain slopes.

Already these three patterns on any landscape are a sign of how humans trigger climate change.

But most of us live in cities. As more and more people grow up surrounded by buildings and asphalt, we have forgotten how to read landscapes: how to tell whether forests are shrinking, how climate change affects animals or whether the quality of the soil is changing.

And yet, reading a landscape correctly is important. If you understand what’s going on, you can hold local and national authorities accountable to do something about it before it’s too late.