Post-Art Clarity

It's getting harder to talk about climate change. When the discourse in its nascent stage of public awareness was led by scientific evidence and advice, it (perhaps naively) felt like an apolitical challenge facing all life on Earth as we know it; an objective truth and point of departure. But of course, we are still immersed, treading water, drowning in late-stage capitalism. If capitalism is the backdrop to our current lifestyles, then social media lies defiantly in the foreground. Issues that affect people, non-human life, and our immediate environments are never apolitical. Climate protesters increasingly being handed prison time attests to this [1]. Where there is profit to be made, the unscrupulous, shallow, shameless decisions are sure to follow. Initiatives working towards net zero targets are no longer viewed as unanimously progressive and positive. Mouthpieces for right-wing populism, with its frantic keenness to vilify and scapegoat, routinely argue that climate catastro...