Subject: Highfalutin Pollution ?
The right to create art is on par with the right to bear children. Questioning either is likely to get a person censured with the same force as Midevil villagers stoning witches.
Maybe I am afflicted with a form of psychosis that befalls people of a certian maturity. Maybe the ability to access so much information has a psychotically disrutptive effect. Or maybe I am starting to tune into a serious issue.
Making art uses resources. Artists are using these resources at an unprecedented rate. These resources that artists use are geared towards permanence, ... meaning that they last longer than ordinary consumer goods.
For example, art-grade acrylics are designed to maintain their cosmetic appearance for 100 years, whereas the best house paints maintain their cosmetic appearance for only about 30 years.
And what is acrylic paint exactly? It is a form of high-grade liquid plastic. We are talking about plastic of 100-year cosmetic duration compared to plastic of 30-year cosmetic duration. How does this translate into its break-down rate in the environment?
Should we be creating so much for so long-term permanence? Should creative people be turning their energies towards the larger canvas of the Earth, where the art of life is the primary art?
The reason I raise this issue here is THIS:
Ocean Plastic Soup
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