Climate change will save us

Let us be rational. Climate change is not the 21srt century's Black Plague. I hate caricatures and those so called defensors of nature we see on tv do not give us a real picture of our current situation - supposing there IS a situation. Climate change can help people.  And I mean it. For instance, when sea levels rise and Pakistan, New York and French Brittany are drowned under the waters, realtors from the rest of the world will have to hire assistants all over the world to find new places for homeless people to live in. The construction business will flourish across the Russian toundra and the Amazonian forest so that huge buildings can be erected out of nothing to welcome inhabitants from all horizons. To sum it up, climate change will provide jobs to many people and help create international communities of stateless citizens.Climate change provides us many opportunities we have to catch before it is too late. And in any case, don't worry, climate change will make our earth a better  place.

Everything changes but Love and Climate : a tribute to Bruce Springsteen

This song is not about a river. This song is about THE metaphorical river. Scientists and litterary critics have made it very clear. The imagery of the river symbolizes both the sacred blood of the earth and the passion that is doomed to run dry in a romance. That recent discovery has shed light upon one of our main debates in modern philosophy. Organic life on earth is defined by its impermanence. And as the Great Pascal and the also Great Hobbes would say : why do all good things have to come to end? To answer this question we have to chose between lack of character or nervous breakdown. In other words: does everything change all the time or, is change only inherent to earthly matters as opposed to spiritual matters? In his song, th Boss speaks the truth and I can tell you, it is a sad one. Climate and love are linked. In the end, the river is dry and Mary acts like she doesn't care about Bruce anymore. Can we say that's a coincidence? I don't think so. When you believe in love and marry your pretty highschool girlfriend, the nightmare officially begins. Once she gets pregnant, you have to get a job. But your job is not satisfying no matter how hard you work. Your boss makes fun of your growing beer belly. So you quit and become an alcoholic. Your pretty wife - who, at that moment, has stopped being that pretty - starts yelling at you. And from this moment on, you begin to act miserably. You throw beer cans in the river. Then, drunkdriving leads you to end up in the river and consequently the river is filled with oil. And then finally, the river which has turned into a puddle of mud is dried out by construction workers building a new old people's house. End of the story. We can't prevent climate change to destroy the earth only because we can't help falling in love.

The importance of being art(s)y

I will never be Oprah. by lauraencinas

I will never Oprah. I sound like an epileptic robot. Why do teachers have to be so crueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel? But don't you worry people, I know it's a long way to the top if you want to rock'n'roll. Yeah.

Visual violence is the answer.

As a street art supporter, I would definitely draw my inspiration from Joshua Allen Harris's work except that I would like to frighten people because I do think that psychological violence is way more impacting than poetry or utopia. You see, I'm much more of a George Orwell than a Thomas Moore. So I would use the devices of art happening and I would spread my action around the world in the biggest capitals on the same day. I would arrange animals' corpses on the streets maybe for instance in Paris, at the feet of the Eiffel Tower. Those corpses would turn out to be fake and made out of silicone but they would be covered with blood and would be supposed to reek of rottenness thanks to synthetic perfume. Eventually, this action that is to be perceived at the same time as an act of eco-terrorism and extreme street art guerilla would certainly create a huge buzz. Those kind of actions should be repeated every month and in the end fake human bodies should replace those of animals.This strategy would endeavour to make the authorities tackle the problem and try to instaur measures to protect us from a dark future.

Does another strategy bite the dust?

If we watch the "science catfight"video I posted yesterday which is an extract of the Colbert Report show of last March, we can't deny that Stephen Colbert's purpose is pretty the same as joshua Allen Harris except that the actual message is conveyed through the device of humor. In the video I posted yesterday, we can attend a debate between two quite famous scientists, Joe Bastardi and Brenda Ekwurzel. The actual theme of the debate revolves around the question : should be believe or not in global warming and after all in this whole climate change thing? First of all, let me remind you of the concept of the Colbert Report. In that show, Stephen Colbert plays the part of the conservative Fox news anchorman who only believes in God, Licoln, Action and the laws of market. In his show, Stephen Colbert parodies the political debates of his time. He's hilarious but "behind blue eyes" hides a clever man whose real aim is to rise people's awareness to the issues that really matters in the world. He kind of forces them to take sides which is clearly better than  choosing apathy. He might not be as efficient as Joshua Allen Harris because he gets political and because Colbert Report is aired everyday so you can forget about all the topics he brought up on the table, but the effort is not entirely useless. With Harris you visualize global warming and with Stephen Colbert  you become a real actor in the global warming debate so you can't pretend you don't know anything about it anymore.

An interesting strategy...

If we are to explain the devices of an extremely efficient strategy to communicate on climate change, needless to say I will talk about street art. I will analyse more precisely the work of Joshua allen Harris, an environmental artist whom I introduced to you on one of my first posts. In 2008, this man created plastic polar bears made of garbage bags that he posed on subway street grates that caused them to periodically inflate and animate. This installation was filmed and used as the Environmental Defense Fund's ad to promote their campaign against global warming. I find this communications strategy really powerful for it has a double impact. First, as this installation is part of a happening, it strikes people in their own environment and sensibilize them to the frailty of a polar bear's life which is not supposed to take place in an urban atmosphere. It suggests that the polar bear has no choice but flee from the melting glaciers he used to call home. The tricks used by Harris are poetic and still particularly visual which helps people remember the situation. Second, making a video ad is always a very effective global weapon for it is the most easy mediatic way to convey a message.

ELF is going to save the world

Even though its website will turn you (colour)blind, the Earth Liberation Front has caught my attention and sympathy. The ELF - no, that's not a joke - is the name for coverted cells who use "economic sabotage and guerilla warfare to stop the exploitation and the destruction of environment". In my opinion, people or at least official people that is to say governments should'nt be too hard on them by calling them "domestic terrorists". They might be a little bit dangerous for between 1998 and 2009 they burned excalavators, destroyed a 206-unit condominium, set fire to evil houses and so on. But the thing is I can't blame them because they're too cool for school. Did you know that the ELF is also known as "Elves" or "the Elves"? Isn't that cooler than cool? They read The Lord of the Ring! And maybe Orlando Bloom is one of them! But let's stick to our subject. So far, the Elves haven't killed anybody and that is why, maybe, they are still considered as angry vegans or post-hippies who like quoting Bob Dylan on their website.

Meteorologists VS Climatologists VS Weathermen : the ultimate catfight

If you really want to know the truth about Mother Nature's hot flushes, check this out : Stephen Colbert strikes again : Science Catfight - Joe Bastardi vs. Brenda Ekwurzel

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                   (No really, it's kinda fun. Joe Bastardi is hot and Brenda Ekwurzel is a woman)

Right now you have to take sides because Lincoln won't do it for you. Somebody's lying - and if I were you, which is fortunately not the case - it'd better not be you. Is Global Warming an ephimeral climate change that already occurred thousands of centuries ago or do we have to emigrate now in a safer place which we haven't figured out yet?

"Polar bears are so overrated", anonymous environmental artist.

This video might be a little dated for it was the Environmental Defense Fund's ad to promote their campaign to stop global warning in 2008. Actually, my point here is not about being relevant or even coherent with the news. I simply want you to ask yourselves a basic question : when and why did polar bears become the sacrificial figures of global warming? Polar bears seem to have always monopolized the  "I'm the n°1 victim, soon my kind will be extinguished, so please don't touch my fur" field of protest. However, this is a common place and also a serious form of discrimination. I mean : hello! Many species are also going to perish and some of them even sooner then those white teddy bears that are only good at slaughtering baby seals and staying all day long on melting glaciers - which tells us how hard they try to make their survival instinct work. Eventually, speaking of the video itself, I would say that its director, "the artist" Joshua Allen Harris, needs to make efforts on the notion of verisimilitude in arts. Harris's creation is alright and my mother found it beautiful and stuff. But as a street artist, you must not lie to people because it is SO wrong and I'll tell you why Harris can't get away with it. First, a polar bear is not white. The beast is dirty and blood thirsty therefore it is muddy-grey. Second, polar bears - in real life - do not make you feel all emotional. I saw Knut in Berlin and the guy is a bored teenager who'd rather see some female polar bear's titties than bring German emos to tears. So let us be clear : Joshua Allen Harris needs to stop joking about global warning and ruining a noble cause just because he wants people to see his own "artistic" and fake vision of the world.

The man was right from the start

Michael had a vision. Now that he's gone, please take it into consideration. As a piece of advice, I would recommend that you do not eat polar bears and that you go buy a George Clooney t-shirt in order to save Darfur. You people should stop acting like morons and get a greener and more responsible life. I'm outta here guys and for the record, I definitely don't like you.