: How can art help us understand climate change? #IndiaNEWS I used to live in a Delhi where the November air is an oily yellowish smear. Water sucked illegally from an underneath aquifer fostered subsidence.

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How can art help us understand climate change? #IndiaNEWS
I used to live in a Delhi where the November air is an oily yellowish smear. Water sucked illegally from an underneath aquifer fostered subsidence. Our house, near the Yamuna, sank into its foundations, fine cracks lining wall plaster.Years later, in Mumbai, close to the place where I was staying, mangroves buffering rising oceans were ripped out. Municipal workers, clearing the seaside view, hacked through tangled, half-submerged trees. On cue, the next monsoon, grey, briny water filled the ground-floor shops.Climate matters are, in this way, close at hand even when at a remove. We open our social-media feeds to images of wildfire and flooding. We scan how oceans acidify, microplastics aggregate, and rainforests vanish. The sky and sea that surrounds us are suffused by anxiety.In all this, nature is framed by crisis and disaster. We have technocratic fixes like geoengineering and social hacks like degrowth. Yet with uncertain odds, our answers deepen our dread.Might this be the central issue? Climate change is the apocalypse we all see. So perhaps the real problem is how we see.Beauty is another method of meeting our world. It is not one that scientists forefront or that planners advocate. Rabindranath Tagore saw it more than a century ago. In his...Read more

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