NOT JUST FOR LAUGHS Stand Up for Climate Change 2021 Live was an online comedy show, featuring pre-apocalyptic entertainment by students and professional comedians like Chuck Nice – and his daughter
FEED: Beyond delivering factuality, how can media actually get people to make change? How do you help individuals become coordinated and moving in a positive direction?
MB: We tend not to be prescriptive. But in climate terms, certain actions are more effective than others. One of the dangers is in over-individualising these challenges, and atomising them to the level of the consumer or citizen. It’s been interesting to see some of the comedic takes, focusing on institutional structures and corporate activities. Everything counts, but we need to have a focus on the larger-scale priorities. For example, something in the news recently – which several of us have been calling for – was pairing trade policy with climate policy.These kinds of activities can have a much greater effect than trying to get everybody to pedal to work. One of the things people aren’t talking about is that climate change isn’t just a single issue. It’s actually an intersectional set of challenges that flow through every aspect of the way we work, play and relax in society.We are living in a very important chapter in history.
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and visceral ways of knowing – including aesthetic methods of knowing in the arts.Those spaces of creativity are ones that I’ve been working on a lot more, whether that’s experimentation, research, or my writing.
We need to expand our registers through experiential, emotional
“EVERYTHING COUNTS, BUT WE NEED TO HAVE A FOCUS ON THE LARGER-SCALE PRIORITIES”
POSITIVE STEPS
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Trash the Runway is an annual independent study workshop for students in grades 6-12, put on by the Common Threads Creative Lab in Boulder. Participants create garments from found materials, and model them in a professional runway show and competition.
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