Saturday, May 14, 2011

It gets better: Grist now tries quoting the Bible and linking to a video by the 10-year-old "King of Eco-Rap"

Calling all artists: The climate movement needs you! | Grist
Great upheavals demand great art. And now humanity faces the gravest of threats: climate change. The climate clock ticks ominously onward, but thus far we have been unable to marshal what Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein describe as the "bodies, passion, and creativity" required to avert impending economic and environmental disaster.

But passion comes from the heart, not the head, and climate activists have largely been targeting people's upper organ, pleading their case with statistics, policy platforms, and poll-driven messaging. Maybe it's time to aim lower.
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Other artists have begun to respond. There are now songs like "Melting Ice" by 10-year-old Lil Peppi, the "King of Eco-Rap"; or Jill Sobule's satirical "Happy Song About Global Warming."
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So we call on our fellow artists to join the climate movement and our fellow climate activists to embrace activist art. For, as the Bible says (Proverbs 29:18), "Where there is no vision, the people perish" -- and so does the planet.

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