Planet Earth....

Huge bill board size posters / artworks in central Bristol highlighting the continuing abuse of the planet by its most successful inhabitant.

I do believe that the world in general, and in Europe especially, does already fully understand this issue. The time for informing us has been and gone and hopefully is fully embezzled in the education system. The next few generations will be the ones who need a seismic change in lifestyle in order to correct the self-destructive path that ours and previous generations have put the planet on.

Whilst embellishing our day to day world artistically is another debate, I can’t help wondering whether the financial cost of making these impressively large works would have been better put to use directly paying for more research to solve the dying bee dilemma or plastics dilemma or for solving any other of the myriad of climate change related problems.

We saw these on a visit to Bristol Aquarium. As we entered that building a small sign informed us that by the year 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans of the world than fish. I don’t disbelieve the information, but once inside, both the coffee shop and gift shop was full of the standard type of mass produced products either encased in single use plastic and/or made of of plastic. It would have been even more effective to see a sign next to it saying that the aquarium actively monitors what it stocks, uses or resells, to minimise the use non recyclable single use plastics.

I’m by no means an eco warrior, (although perhaps we all should be) but I do like it when I’m being preached to for it to go hand in hand with action. Less do as I say but more do as I do.