This book is an expansive presentation of international contemporary photography, video, and new media art addressing the challenges presented by global change.
It shows the works of 34 international artists, focusing on the ways in which these media reflect on our relationship, as individuals and as a society, to the natural environment around us.
An important aspect of this presentation is how individual artists are using their work to address the impact of human behavior on the natural environment.
The purpose of the book is to provoke, through visual art, new ways of thinking about how we see our role within the natural environment and our connection(s) to the rest of the planet and how this affects our future.
The book looks at ways in which artists and scientists are re-visioning our relationship with the Earth, its oceans and atmosphere.
The artists and artworks confront a broad range of issues that are challenges to the future of the Earth.
These include climate change, water, energy, biodiversity, and food production, population, natural resources, waste, and migration.
The Authors The two lead essays set the scientific, ecological and biological context for the book.
Geof Rayner, a scholar and public health policy expert in the UK, looks at the evolution and impact of fossil fuel development and use.
He will discuss the history and meaning of the Anthropocene and the need, even in the context of human health, to redefine our relationship to the ecosystems of the earth and the species with which we share the Earth.
This includes an understanding of limits in relation to co-maintaining human existence and that of the planet.
He discusses the rarity of the dynamic processes that came together to enable life as we know it, and the dangers of continuing to treat the resources of the planet as limitless.
He argues for a view of the planet as ever-changing, and inextricably linked to the sustainability of human existence.
Thomas E.
Lovejoy directed the World Wild.
Schilt Publishing Changing circumstances: looking at the future of the planet, hardcover/fotofest international
