Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
I can't make sense of this, how does hole punching the report help anyone? Is the point to demonstrate how big it is by showing how long it'd take to file?
I think the point is to demonstrate how uselessly bureaucratic the reaction to climate change has been from the world’s leaders. Plus a giant waste of resources without any meaningful action.
Printing out 8000 page reports that no one will read and flying private jets to eco summits hosted by petrol countries demonstrates that no one who can do something, wants to do anything.
An art does not need to be useful like a painting on a wall does not need to serve a purpose other than being a painting. This particular art performance is intended to send a message about the climate disaster that we're heading into. I'm sure in the museum there will be an adequate explanation either from the tour guide or some plate.
A solar powered ahredder might have been easier
I think that would decrease the artistic value and the message impact. There is just something about an actual human doing something that could send a message via art that a machine just cannot replicate.
Not sure about using the term artistic value to refer to this, but I think I get the point and agree.
I find a human toiling away—even in silence—a lot harder to ignore than a machine. It seems much more fitting for the name "The Elephant in the Room," making that entire room uncomfortable yet hesitant to speak out.
The way I see it, his work is saying: let's make everyone feel that discomfort more and more, until they truly understand this problem isn't going away and needs to be talked about now.
...And not like the UN does it.
I dig it.