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...weather as war maker has influential backers. On April 16, 2007, 11 former U.S. admirals and generals published a report for the Center for Naval Analyses Corporation that described climate change as a "threat multiplier" in volatile parts of the world. The next day, then British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett hosted a debate on climate change and conflict at the U.N. Security Council in New York City. "What makes wars start?" asked Beckett. "Fights over water. Changing patterns of rainfall. Fights over food production, land use. There are few greater potential threats to our economies, too, but also to peace...
...waiting too!’” These stray sounds from the city helped settle Beckett’s spare script into its rough setting. “The silence of the play,” Chan said, “is a gift from Beckett. It’s a gift of space of silence that we can fill.”The idea of emptiness runs through Chan’s visual work. In “5th Light,” one of Chan’s “easy” pieces, shadows projected...
...Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Abby D. Phillip can be reached at adphillip@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...enough away from it to be proud of it again. THC: How is your work influenced by other art forms? AS: On one hand it’s possible to say that I’m influenced by everything from Rice Krispies package backs to Beckett. Like most artists, anything—all the different ways of making a thought or feeling manifest that you can re-translate for oneself. There’s a certain moment when 20th-century painting became very important to me as something that I was trying to think about and see how it could...