It's unbelievable that the annual carbon dioxide concentration growth rate was larger during the last ten years, the same with methane and nitrous oxide. I was watching Bill Maher last week night and he had the president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, come on and talk about how methane was such a huge issue. She said it was literally the gas emitted from cows and pigs. Normally I'd say that this is a funny cop-out, but in a society where McDonald's hamburgers are sold for what $1? I can understand why she would be a guest on Maher's show. This report was a bit lengthy and down-right depressing; but perhaps it will come in handy for our "Inconvienent" project.
As far as greenmuseum.org goes, I looked at Michele Brody's work and really loved the delicacy of the illuminated skirt structures. To me it represented human mortality the most. This inspires me to do something emphemeral if not with the group projects, with my own art.
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It was my first time seeing An Inconvenient Truth, and although some of the facts I was already aware of (since the film is two years old), I was stunned by a number of the statistics as well.
I have to wonder about those that deny, skirt the issue of, or even remain ambivalent to the fact that we as humans have any negative impact on the Earth. Whether global warming is fact or theory, isn't it better to be safe than sorry? I read the In the Making section on Kim Jones right before watching the film, and I kept getting flashes to the "pervasive battle" he talks about (and that you actually mentioned in Michele's post). It's as if global warming is seen as a battle we simply can't win, and the response is refusal to be one of the "weak" who lack control--like one of the rats burned alive in the cage. And so they would prefer to deny or just sweep it under the rug so that we don't have to confront the inevitability that we reap what we sew.
I would love to see some of the environmental art on Greenhouse.org find its way into at least one of our group projects. I actually work in a flower shop so I like to think that in some small way the work I do there is environmental art--but looking at some of the artists makes me definitely want to try it on a larger scale (particularly Chris Booth's stone sculptures).
I was shocked by the statistics in an Inconvenient Truth. While watching the movie i could not help but think that the situation must be even worse with the years going by. I was reading cradle to cradle at around the same time that I watched the movie and i could not help but put together the fact that the industrial revolution started with the titanic and now look at the world. It is amazing how things and priorities change so frequently.
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