#climatejustice
Welcome to another @CultureStrike editorial cartoon!
This past Monday, a series of emails between staff at the Natural Resources Conservation Service were obtained by The Guardian that demonstrate how the Trump administration is dealing with climate change: they are simply changing the language (read more here: bit.ly/biancaeuphemisms).
Bianca Moebius-Clune, the director of soil health, wrote a list of words to avoid using, and offered a list of euphemism instead. “Climate change” became “weather extremes.” “Reduce greenhouse gases” became “build soil organic matter.” “Climate change adaptation” became “resilience to weather extremes.” The list extends to other terms, all reflecting the politics of the Trump’s administration to censor science.
Bianca wrote, “We won’t change the modeling, just how we talk about it… tamp down on discretionary messaging right now.”
The Trump administration is clearly putting politics above science, hoping that by changing the language, the impact of reality won’t be as severe, or that the problem will disappear. It won’t. Given his communications team’s approach to reporting the reality of the white house, changing the language does not alter reality. It just changes a truth into a lie.
But maybe Bianca and the Trump administration are onto something. It’s taken many years for “climate change” to become a part of our lingo, considering the calamities that are forthcoming if big changes aren’t made. But for many people, “climate change” doesn’t encapsulate the real dangers and urgency that it deserves in order to start shifting our culture to address this issue and save ourselves. The Trump administration is taking this issue to heart, but in a very destructive direction.
Maybe “climate change” can be a term that we can retire in the future in favor of a term that is more relevant, truthful, and immediate to our communities. One thing is for sure, though: climate change is real, regardless of what anybody decides to call it.
Artwork by @juliosalgado. Blurb written by @eslvis.
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Welcome to another @culturestrike editorial cartoon!
Last week, @newsweek published an article titled “Humans Have Produced 9 Billion Tons of Plastic Throughout History” (to read article: bit.ly/9billiontons). Half of all the plastic ever produced by human kind has been produced in the last 13 years, the vast majority of which people use for a very short time or for single use!
The vast majority of plastic ends up in landfills or somewhere in our environment, particularly in the ocean. One study has found that approximately 270,000 tons of plastic are floating atop the ocean surface, with millions of more tons on the ocean floor! Of the 9 billion tons of plastic produced, only 9% has ever been recycled.
It takes a significant amount of energy and resources to make plastic. For instance,17 million barrels of oil are used per year to make the bottles for bottled water (enough oil to fill a million cars for one year), and it takes THREE times the water to make a bottle as it does to fill it!
So how do we stop poisoning our environment with plastic so that we don’t end up in a scene like that of “Idiocracy?” Here are five easy cut-backs that you, as an individual, can make to stagnate your reliance on plastic:
1. Stop using plastic straws! 500 million are used and thrown away EACH DAY!
2. Say no to plastic bags at grocery stores! Get you some reusable cloth bags!
3. No more plastic cutlery.
4. NOOO plastic water bottles! Get yourself a reusable water bottle!
5. Ixnay on the styrofoam containers! Styrofoam is not recyclable and is terrible for the environment.
Our reliance on plastic is something in our culture that we can curb. If we don’t, we can very well turn our home into a giant plastic dump, as we definitely have the ability to cover this planet with layers of plastic several times over.
Artwork by @juliosalgado83. Blurb written by @eslvis.
#culturestrike #art4change #climatejustice #environmentaljustice
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New on CultureStrike Magazine: “Berta Cáceres, Presente!” by Michelle Chen. “As climate change forces us to link the destruction of our atmosphere, economic exploitation, and corporate impunity, refugee and indigenous communities are building a common movement across borders. While migrant women fight for the right to live and work in their resettled homelands, the communities they left behind fight for the right to remain. Whether marching in urban streets or along ancestral riverbeds, they’re defending their rightful homes.” #csmag #csmagazine #bertacaceres #environmentaljustice #climatejustice #environmental #indigenous #indigenousresistance #mujer #mujeres via @aliciamariasiu
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Very thrilled to officially announce that we have a new Climate Justice Program Manager added to our team!
Layel has been working with us for the last several months as a contractor; you might have seen them on our feed already. They helped us complete art projects and helping build our presence at different events throughout California by spearheading Art Parties at different locations, working very closely with partner organizations and community members. It was only natural (and VERY crucial) that they become a part of our staff.
Please extend a warm welcome to Layel and read a little more about them below!
#Repost @thechosenlyfe
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I’m ecstatic to announce that I’m the new Climate Justice Program Manager! I’ve had the amazing pleasure of supporting @CultureStrike for almost 9 months now. Through my work in Transformative Justice towards ending child sexual abuse; I’ve been working towards a vision where young people can live free and joyous. Through this vision I can see the cultural work that’s needed to foster an environment where young people can triumph. My heart wants to see a world where our air, water and land is abundant and continuously giving but . The cultural work needed are narrative shifts that uplift and bring visibility to communities of color that are directly impacted by climate change and environmental injustice & that centers them as experts, solutions that support the well being of #MamaTierra , and that requires all of us, especially queer, trans and artists of color + climate institutions to work collectively towards a shared vision. I’m excited to be working with such artists as well as communities of color primarily impacted by climate change! #IntersectionalWork #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice #LiberationWork [image description: a brown gender queer masculine presenting person is holding three dead fish who did not survived in the Salton Sea.]
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Another #CoachellaWalls mural by @lapiztola.
#therealcoachella #coachellavalley #csdisruptscoachella #climatejustice
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North Shore, Coachella
@thechosenlyfe holds up several carcasses of the hundreds of thousands of dead fish that litter the beaches of the Salton Sea.
There are very few adjectives that one can use to describe this place in a positive way. There are, however, many to describe its currently reality: eerie, filthy, deathly, quiet, ominous, smelly, sad, dark, swampy, grimly, devastating, hazardous, apocalyptic… you get the idea.
This manmade ecological disaster that is the Salton Sea will only get worse as climate change brings higher temperatures to the area. With no water source feeding the lake, the waters continue to recede and in the process making the lake saltier (it’s currently 30% saltier than the Pacific ocean). The higher rates of salinity have made the lake an extreme and inhospitable place for most fish to survive. Every summer, as winds stir the surface of the lake, deoxygenated waters from the depths of the lake rise to the surface (along with soot and pesticides that have long settled on at the bottom of the lake), killing masses of fish. These fish end up on the banks of the receding lake, and rot out in the sun, creating a lasting impression of death in their rotting-egg stench wake that is unberable for many miles around the lake.
Said North Shore resident Conchita, “In the peak of summer, we can’t even turn on the air conditioner in our house, as the smell will get inside our house and make my children sick.”
Thermal resident Delfina said to us, “During the summer, if we put clothes out on the clothesline to dry and forget to bring it all in after a few hours, the smell will work itself into the fibres of the clothes and reek of dead fish. We have to wash the clothes again if we can. If there’s no money for more detergent, we have to walk around smelling like death. Everybody around here recognizes the smell. It’s horrible.”
#coachella2017 #therealcoachella #coachellavalley #csdisruptscoachella #climatejustice
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Honoured to have been a part of the climate strike today, it was inspirational seeing kids mobilising to take action for our planet Governments have been silent on climate change for too long, favouring profits over the planet. Governments are happy to steal our future from us and the future of our planet. There’s nothing more imperative than halting climate change. The kids know this, when will the adults listen?
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt6fQxDnyyO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mcope7hs7125
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Shout-out to @kim_bo915 as one of the @humanimpactsinstitute 2020 Creative Climate awards artists!
The CCA’s are an annual series of events that showcase artists creating climate-inspired public works and actions.
Bronx artist Kim Dacres’ work transforms tires to speak on black identity and presence.
Check out her artwork along with her powerful call to action via the link in our bio.
“My practice showcases a sustainable way of producing and consuming art by reusing, rebuilding, or utilizing the resources we have around us.”
- Kim Dacres
Kim Dacres
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2018-2019
Auto tires, bicycle tires, inner tubes, wood, screws, spray enamel
Bust: 42 x 24 x 18 in
(106.7 x 61 x 45.7 cm)
Installation view, Kim Dacres: Wisdom Embedded in the Treads, GAVLAK Los Angeles, 2020. Photos by Ed Mumford.
Installation view, Marcus Garvey Park, Harlem, NY, 2019.
Images courtesy of the artist and Human Impact Institute.
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#kimdacres #CCA2020 #peacefulperch #humanimpactinstitute #bxartists #artsforsocialchange #supportbxartists #artivist #climateart #artactivist #ClimateCrisis #SocialJustice #ClimateJustice #sustainableart #climatechangematters #sustainableart #calltoaction #climateactivist #artinstallation #publicart #femaleartists #womanartist #womenartists #harlem #nyartists #jamaicanartist #creativeclimateawards #blackartmatters #bipocart (at Planet Earth)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CI9W9v1Fs5v/?igshid=13r2ur81clbcp
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