{"id":1085,"date":"2005-04-22T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/04\/22\/the-plays-the-thing\/"},"modified":"2005-04-22T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T15:38:00","slug":"the-plays-the-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-plays-the-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Play’s the Thing…”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hard to believe that I missed this new Bill McKibben essay <\/a>on Grist<\/em> in this morning’s scan… McKibben addresses a cultural approach to environmental issues such as global warming, and wonders why the artistic world hasn’t more forcefully addressed these topics. So far, we have The Day After Tomorrow<\/em> and State of Fear<\/em>, neither of which look like they’ll set off a renaissance of environmental art. Part of a course I teach every semester deals with the Harlem Renaissance, and I think that movement could serve as an apt model for such a flowering of environmentally-inspired art: like Alain Locke and W.E.B. DuBois, we need leaders who recruit artists of all kinds to address these issues. DuBois once wrote “All art is propaganda…” — is that such a bad thing?<\/p>\n Technorati tags:environmentalism<\/a>, culture<\/a><\/p>\n