People email me stuff. Sometimes its just too bizarre to ignore. We have another person on an “expedition” with a camera and artistic license to foist upon the world:
From Francesca Galeazzi of the disko.bay expedition, whatever the hell that is:
This morning I walked across the fresh snow with a gas cylinder in my arms, containing 6kg of CO2. I took it across the unspoiled snow field of the Jakobshavn Fjord until I found what, to my eyes, was a wonderful place.
From a little hill I could see massive icebergs impassably floating by, some of them breaking up from time to time with a loud bang. The sea below was deep grey, which made the icebergs stand up in all their beauty and fragility. The sky was a merge of pale grey and cerulean with a yellow glow just behind the skyline. Lichen and small berry plants could be felt under the powdery snow as I walked by. I thought this is perfect!
I walked to the top of the small hill, I put the cylinder down, got on my knees and opened the valve. The CO2 came out violently, freezing the air around the nozzle and producing an unpleasant whistle. When I lowered the cylinder towards the ground, the snow blow off all around me under the pressure of the air jet, almost to signify the melting of the Arctic ice shelf because of the Carbon emissions generated somewhere else.
Photo: Nathan Gallagher.
Reading this you might think I am an evil horrible woman. I would like to reassure you, I am not! I haven’t done anything bad. because I have offset the carbon emissions generated by the CO2 cylinder, through an online Gold Standard Carbon Offsetting scheme! Cool no? This is great stuff. one can go about consciously polluting the world, wasting energy, producing tonnes of waste and abusing natural resources without feeling guilty at all!! One can simply pay somebody to compensate for his/her ‘bad’ actions somewhere else, and become Carbon Neutral!
Don’t you think this is great?
Read the rest here
No, and I think you are beyond art, you’ve launched yourself into the great realm of anti-art with a megadose of idiocy.
What next? posing propane cyclinders with polar bears? Yes the propane and propane accessories signifies the struggle against heat the polar bears must face every day.
Hey it’s art. I have a license.
I was searching for an old cartoon relevant to this thread when I cam across this set of cartoons: http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/c/carbon_dioxide.asp
I my area there are old Hippie types,they usually drive old VW Microbuses, that pollute
and get worse mileage than my F-150.Yet they have various stickers on the back
like “Kill your SUV” “Wind Power” etc.etc.I am going to have one made up:
“Split Atoms-Not Birds.” just to see the reaction.
The young lady in the article smokes waaay to much Ganja and has too much trust fund money on her hands…
I’m sorry, but as I read her musings I get the impression she is criticising the wets who think all they have to do is ship money to someone who has a carbon credit to trade. Does she know this?
She must be from Oregon.
Cause we got lots of crazy here.
Try this.
“When even a polar bear is driven to drink, the world really might be in trouble.
On a recent trip to Canada, 16-year-old Patricia Billette spotted a polar bear lapping up water — unusual, because the arctic predators generally get all the water they need from the icy food they eat. The drinking bear, Billette said, is a telling sign that global warming is affecting the planet and, more specifically, polar bears, which she said are enduring shorter feeding seasons because of warmer weather.”
http://www.oregonlive.com/tigard/index.ssf/2009/11/studying_polar_bears_gives_southridge_student_a_lesson_on_global_warming.html
Here’s my version, cleaned up for my own sensibilities:
See? it’s all in how you phrase it.
Someone under the name “goreal” left a great comment on the cape farewell site that sums up the complete insanity of calling this project art.
“If I fart, is that art?”
I am more of a fan of nitrous oxide.
We say here, ‘There’s one born every minute’. I joined a forum about two years ago (only for a few weeks) just to correct a ‘new-ager’ (actually the host of the web site) on a point about the Sun’s age, and I got into a lengthy discussion with her about climate change. However, I quickly learned that she was completely away with the fairies, and eventually there’s just no reasoning with that. There are some people are are just so shot in the head that they shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Her photo was at the top of the page, and you know what? You could tell everything about her from just that!
Isn’t that a climate crime?
2 years in solitary.
Am I the only one here who thinks the person was making a mockery of Al Gore by releasing CO2 into nature and being able to pay for her “sin” on the CO2 exchange??? Seems to me she is on the skeptics side.
AJStrata
Bizarre, truly bizarre. While trying to make a point she completely misses the point. And the comments?!
@SJones
Good summary. That CO2 cylinder probably cost enough to feed a child in Africa for a month.
Damn, I just knew it would be British!
Cape Farewell,
Riverside Room, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road,
London, SE1 8XX, England
Sorry everyone, truly sorry.
She’s a shoe-in for the next Nobel Peace Prize.
Art doesn’t do this one justice. Climate porn is what I would call it.
Perhaps someone should do the same thing with a bottle of Oxygen …. and then call for an immediate ban of Oxygen. Surely if it blew snow off of the surface then Oxygen could be blamed for any melting of Arctic Ice as well.
Note that they brought CO2 with them and released it into the pure atmosphere! What type of eco-criminals are these people? Off to the gulag with you.
Climate idiocy may have just reached its zenith.
Looks like there’s no shortage of screwballs in the world.
Al Gore got vandalized
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/11/vandals_target_keller_auditori.html
The sea below was deep grey, which made the icebergs stand up in all their beauty and fragility.
Beauty yes, Fragile no. If he was alive we should ask Shackelton, or maybe the captain of the Titanic how ‘fragile’ icebergs are?
carrot eater (11:36:15) :
There’s no need to feel guilty about anything. You either reduce your own emissions, or pay for somebody else to reduce theirs. How does it matter who does it, so long as the total amount of emissions goes down?
The main shortfall of offsets is making sure the emissions reduction you’re paying for wouldn’t have happened anyway. That gets tricky.
Dear Carrot, there are a few more problems then that. Do you not have to know in fact that any reductions paid for actually happen at all. Also it would be helpful to know that reductions were really even needed. The world of 280PPM would need 20% more water to grow the amount of food we do today with 380PPM CO2
Yet another example of how 50% of the population is below average intelligence. It’s a pity that they are all allowed to vote.
(Median is essentially equal to average for IQ)
Remember: It was an iceberg that sank the Titanic-in all it’s ‘beauty and fragility’.
A prime candidate for the IPCC here then
To make it really graphic, she should have whack a polar bear with the tank… and maybe survive to tell about it.
It’s not considered art these days unless somebody is offended, preferably deeply offended.
So this must be art because the sheer stupidity of it (and the artist) is offensive. If I find out this was paid for with tax dollars, I will be doubly offended, which would make it even more artsy-fartsy.
Speaking of artsy-fartsy, can I sell carbon offsets by promising to not eat certain foods, particularly vegetables from the legume family and others containing high amounts of not-completely digestible complex carbohydrates? Is there a market for that?
I’m already getting money from my wife to not eat those foods and I’m thinking about selling more offsets through PayPal. Anybody interested in a venture-capital opportunity? It’s e-commerce!