Consensus: Three left-wing panelists are all concerned about the role of plastics pollution in global warming

Artists speak out at Blue Ocean Film Festival's finale - Santa Cruz Sentinel

Frustrated by his perceived lack of the public's willingness to change its global-warming ways and with a sense of preaching to the choir, Sea Studios manager and filmmaker Mark Shelley said he wants to do more than document the ocean environment's decline.

Shelley was one of three panelists who participated in the Plastic Pollution Coalition's "Art and Artists Working Toward Change" presentation in the closing hours of the week-long Blue Ocean Film Festival in Monterey on Sunday.

He and the others — undersea photographer Kip Evans and artist Pam Longobardi — all voiced concern about global warming and the role plastics pollution may be playing in it.
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"I'm an advocate," Shelley said. While the panel was meant to talk about how art and film can lead more people to behavioral change, "I don't think that's happening in the time frame we need it to happen. It's stupid what we're doing. Climate change is going to change everything.

"We're not anywhere near radical enough to recognize that capitalism based on growth can't continue."
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"I see the Occupy movement as the largest social sculpture on the planet," Longobardi said, adding that her own students voice their identification with it, "like they are new little hippies."