Recommended Reading: Culture and Climate Change
This week we've been reading Culture and Climate Change: Recordings, a publication based on a series of discussions around the cultural politics of climate change, originally recorded as podcasts for the Mediating Change (2009 - ongoing) series. The recordings, and now the book, comprise a body of research activity and conversations with leading researchers, artists, producers, journalists and others which map out this new field in the arts and sciences.
Contributors include Mike Hulme, Tim Smit, Siobhan Davies, Roger Harrabin and Marcus Brigstocke. Their poignant words are supplemented by a comprehensive list of resources and a timeline tracing recorded impacts of climate change, the political landmarks relating to climate change, and the scientific progress and cultural work that has sought to confront the issue. The list ranges from the first recorded incident - the "collapse of the Ancient Pueblo or Anasazi civilisation in Southwest USA attributed to drought and deforestation" in the 1200s, to the wealth of literature, film, theatre, and scientific consensus that has contribute to raising popular awareness of this as one of the great issues of our time in recent years.
Co-funded by and developed in partnership with the Ashden Trust, Culture and Climate Change: Recordings, is available for pdf download and can be ordered in paperback for £5 (plus P&P):
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