Performing Climate Change: DJ Spooky Talks with Bill McKibben

Performing Climate Change: DJ Spooky Talks with Bill McKibben

20 MAY 2013

The discussion below has been edited for length and clarity.

BILL MCKIBBEN: It’s a great pleasure to be here with you, Paul. Since we’re talking about art, it’s worth saying that at some level, we’re engaged in a kind of planet-scale performance art project right now and the question it raises is, what happens if you pour an enormous quantity of carbon dioxide into the upper atmosphere? What happens is that the way the planet looks in every dimension begins to change, quite quickly. Last summer, for instance, our joint art project melted the Arctic.

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