Urgency and Opportunity
Many scientists believe we have all the technologies available today to avert the worst consequences of global warming. I have no trouble imagining how new materials used in new ways as well as ancient technologies re-tooled, could slow global warming by increasing the aldedo effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo
I intend to explore some of these options and opportunities in my next installation. That work, called, Pervious, Porous, Integrated, opens April 8 at the Exit Art Gallery. http://www.exitart.org/ is in New York City at 475 Tenth Ave on the corner of 36th St.
As I design that work, I am even more motivated by news, again, this time in the journal, Science, that the glaciers continue to melt faster than anyone anticipated.
This is happening because we did not know that warming waters are slipping under the glaciers now, even as melting waters slide down between fissures. All of that is contributing to a series of earth quakes in Greenland. The earth quakes accelerate the melt in another feedback of cumulative effect. Scientists have seen significant change since 1993. That has dramatically increased since 2002. The Law of Unanticipated Consequences is at work.
To apply something someone else said today, all changes and ends in life, including coastal zone life as we know it. Life has pain, which includes the loss of entitlements to natural resources. People are not always loving or kind, in relation to the earth we share or the people & species most effected by the selfish, greedy and unscrupulous. Life is not always fair. The reapers and sowers do not seem to be in communication with the seeds and weeds of disaster. Things do not go according to plan. See above.
We have the opportunity to effect this situation. The situation is urgent. What more can I say?
I intend to explore some of these options and opportunities in my next installation. That work, called, Pervious, Porous, Integrated, opens April 8 at the Exit Art Gallery. http://www.exitart.org/ is in New York City at 475 Tenth Ave on the corner of 36th St.
As I design that work, I am even more motivated by news, again, this time in the journal, Science, that the glaciers continue to melt faster than anyone anticipated.
This is happening because we did not know that warming waters are slipping under the glaciers now, even as melting waters slide down between fissures. All of that is contributing to a series of earth quakes in Greenland. The earth quakes accelerate the melt in another feedback of cumulative effect. Scientists have seen significant change since 1993. That has dramatically increased since 2002. The Law of Unanticipated Consequences is at work.
To apply something someone else said today, all changes and ends in life, including coastal zone life as we know it. Life has pain, which includes the loss of entitlements to natural resources. People are not always loving or kind, in relation to the earth we share or the people & species most effected by the selfish, greedy and unscrupulous. Life is not always fair. The reapers and sowers do not seem to be in communication with the seeds and weeds of disaster. Things do not go according to plan. See above.
We have the opportunity to effect this situation. The situation is urgent. What more can I say?
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