Jet Emissions, Choices and Satisfactions
The conversation with Sam Bower on the 10: AM ET Virtual Concert today lays a little base for a discussion of why the virtual world is so important and yet so tricky in addressing global warming and other environmental issues.
The Virtual Concerts I am doing with TalkShoe.com emerged from the Virtual Residency I did last Summer from this site. They are my continuing effort to address jet fuel emissions, my own physiological limits and still practice internationally as an ecological artist. The genesis of that idea is in the essay I wrote for greenmuseum.org:
"Birthing A Virtual Residency" by Aviva Rahmani Artist
Aviva Rahmani provides an overview of how attending an ecological conference inspired a change in her work.
Birthing:
http://tinyurl.com/yzfxdy
A parody of why this is important is in the following article about “Spurt”, a group defending airlines right to spew carbon emissions over the world:
http://tinyurl.com/yjerkv
Nicholas Kristof has a more serious take on things in today’s NY Times:
http://tinyurl.com/yf9k3x
I am not satisfied with proposals to buy carbon credits as a solution for jet emissions. As with the tobacco industry, the solutions to bad situations and serious consequences have to be far more dramatic. The technology is there, it is just not being applied. That applies to both travelers and industry execs- as much as ecological artists.
That said, as Sam implies, and we all know, there are times when jet travel is the only solution. So the question comes back again to human factors: when to make the trade off, how to take responsibility for the consequences and how to develop the means to find alternatives.
The Virtual Concerts I am doing with TalkShoe.com emerged from the Virtual Residency I did last Summer from this site. They are my continuing effort to address jet fuel emissions, my own physiological limits and still practice internationally as an ecological artist. The genesis of that idea is in the essay I wrote for greenmuseum.org:
"Birthing A Virtual Residency" by Aviva Rahmani Artist
Aviva Rahmani provides an overview of how attending an ecological conference inspired a change in her work.
Birthing:
http://tinyurl.com/yzfxdy
A parody of why this is important is in the following article about “Spurt”, a group defending airlines right to spew carbon emissions over the world:
http://tinyurl.com/yjerkv
Nicholas Kristof has a more serious take on things in today’s NY Times:
http://tinyurl.com/yf9k3x
I am not satisfied with proposals to buy carbon credits as a solution for jet emissions. As with the tobacco industry, the solutions to bad situations and serious consequences have to be far more dramatic. The technology is there, it is just not being applied. That applies to both travelers and industry execs- as much as ecological artists.
That said, as Sam implies, and we all know, there are times when jet travel is the only solution. So the question comes back again to human factors: when to make the trade off, how to take responsibility for the consequences and how to develop the means to find alternatives.
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