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Can art illustrating climate change’s effects shape policy?
There’s no shortage of powerful images and video when it comes to natural disasters like wildfires and melting glaciers. But a pair of artists are now using those images in new ways, as part of their mission to warn people about climate change and its devastating impact on familiar landscapes. Miles O’Brien takes a different…
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Plastic Ocean Art Installation by Tan Zi Xi
In the Plastic Ocean exhibit, more than 20,000 plastic waste collected hang motionless in the stillness of the space. The installation reflects an ocean that is highly cluttered with plastic that takes 1,000 years to degrade. Yes, every thoughtless flick of plastic into your dustbin may contribute to the swirling mass of plastic drifting across…
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How Climate Changes Art
The Art Assignment tackles the intersection of art and our changing climate in this video. Throughout history, art has helped reveal the climate around us and highlight our fragile relationship to it. We look at navigational charts from the Marshall Islands, Katsushika Hokusai’s “Under the Wave off Kanagawa”, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “Hunters in the…
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5 Human Impacts on the Environment: Crash Course Ecology #10
Hank gives the run down on the top five ways humans are negatively impacting the environment and having detrimental effects on the valuable ecosystem services which a healthy biosphere provides. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eTCZ9L834s&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNdTKZkV_GiIYXpV9w4WxbX&index=10
