The Guardian view on Our Story With David Attenborough and The Herds: a new theatre of the Anthropocene | Editorial
AParts of the United Kingdom, this week brought more worrying reports Increase temperaturesThe maximum Weather events and Decreased opportunities From meeting the global 1.5C goal. This was the warmer spring in the United Kingdom Ever The most dry in more than 50 years.
Delivery of the urgency to our predicament without raising despair and despair represents an incurable challenge, especially when it comes to children. But the homogeneous theater experiences are heading in the collapse of the natural world to urban urbanism, and raising this alarm with immediate, so that those of us are lucky enough to live in places that have not yet been affected by the climate crisis.
Our story with David Attenburo It is an amazing history for 50 minutes from the planet, from the team behind the last movie circumference. Thanks to 24 display devices and 50 speakers, the Jerwood Museum Natural History is converted into the solar system, pre -date, ocean and forest. As in Morris Centak for classic children where wild objects are, “walls [become] The world is everywhere. TropicalBy Samantha Harvey, our story inspires the feelings of dread and protection towards our planet, which the astronauts call “the effect of the general view.”
In the past, Sir David was accused Not to speak strongly on human environmental disasters. But the trustee writer George Montet, who was previously one of his fiercest CriticsOcean description, launched to Sir David 99 birthday This year, as a movie “I was waiting for my working life.”. In our story, we wander through collective extinction in the past, and Nandaria, in the future. Without changing, “the possibility of the following generations is dark”, the audience is warned.
Next Friday, hundreds of elephants, giraffes, deer, and animal dolls will disappear from all kinds in the streets of London on their 20,000 -km journey from Central Africa to the Arctic circle. Herds It is the follow -up project for Walking. In 2021, a 12-foot doll girl traveled from Türkiye-Syria border to London, to increase awareness of the refugee crisis. A few amal reached 2 million people in 17 countries. Now its creators hope to do the same in the case of climatic emergency. The herd escapes northDolls will join him from local species of every country he visits. Manchester is its next destination, before continuing in the Scandinavian countries.
The coach of the project, Amir Nizar Zoubi, acknowledged that all of these endeavors, no matter how amazing, “Water dripping on stone”. However, as he says, over time, drops can restructure stone.
These are visceral, sensory floods. Like climate art installation in Olafor Eliason Weather project In Tate Modern in 2003, such an amazing person calls us to think together – they are group experiences. This is the Anthroposin Theater: vast, catastrophic, beautiful but ultimately. It helps us to imagine the shape of a different world – if only politicians and companies are to act. The next chapter is up to us. As Sir David says at the end of our story, we must work at the time when the Earth becomes a planet “not only a smart type, but also wise.”
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