Art and the Emotions of Climate Change
Climate Change is about much more than cold statistics
I recently published a post on Medium titled, We Need to Meet Climate Change with Art, but it was only the beginning of what I hope to be a long series of blog posts exploring how we might better make art that addresses the wider issues of climate change.
As I hope you’ve guessed by now, this is one of those posts.
One of art’s most unique roles in addressing climate change is in expressing the wide spectrum of emotions surrounding the climate crisis and allowing us to connect over our shared experience.
For today, I chose to explore 3 key emotions surrounding climate change — RAGE, Despair, and Hope.
RAGE
Who else gets MAD when they think of climate change??? The climate crisis is — among other things — a remarkably infuriating situation.
How long have we known our planet was…