Do we feel the environment breakdown in our gut? Will people looking back see art that conveyed the existential threat of the emergency?
Climate Crisis
Arts Commentary: Arts Criticism — Stuck in the Bunker
Arts critics are not expected to take the cultural temperature; they are there to reinforce the assumption that the business of the arts in America is … business.
Rock Album Review: Joyce Manor’s “40 oz. to Fresno” — Songs for a Burning Planet
The album isn’t a dull listen because it hammers home the high anxiety that many are feeling, particularly in California, land of the forever drought and endless forest fires.
Theater Review: “Sea Sick” — How Damned Is the Ocean?
Personable but bracing, Sea Sick delivers an essential message: not only about the damage that is being done to the oceans, but the horrors that are coming down the pike.
Book Review: The Climate Crisis and the “Race for Tomorrow”
If there is one book to pick up that will get you interested in what is happening to our climate, Race for Tomorrow is it.
Book Review: “Literature for a Changing Planet” — A Crash Course
Martin Puchner is stumped because what is called for is a genuinely radical rethink about what role literature and literary studies should play in avoiding the global meltdown to come.
Book Review: “The New Climate War” — Enough of the Doomsayers!
This incisive volume will assist the creation of a much-needed collective effort, helping to frame a unified approach to waging combat on those who are destroying the environment for the sake of short term profit.
Theater Commentary: Who’s Agitating for a “Green New Theatre”?
The arrival of Groundwater Arts suggests the birth of efforts to organize artists and others to press cultural organizations to take meaningful action on the climate crisis.
Book Review: “Under a White Sky” — Saving Ourselves and Nature
Can we correct some of the mistakes we’ve made and engineer our way out of a deadly climate crisis of our own making?
Theater Commentary: Why Are America’s Stages Afraid of Dealing with the Climate Crisis?
Those who survive the climate crisis will regard American theater’s current indifference with incredulity and disgust.