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Last night artist Buster Simpson and writer William E. McKibben '82 gave the first in a series of presentations on the collaboration between artists and scientists facing environmental challenges...
...McKibben, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, discussed the usefulness of art in raising public awareness of environmental dangers...
...connection [between art and the environment] is more profound than would seem," McKibben said before a crowd of about 100 at the Agassiz Theatre...
...have to] make visible this thing that is now invisible and unpleasant to think about," McKibben said...
...McKibben's environmentalist agenda is never far from the surface. Our disconnection from the real world, he argues, has blinded us to the urgency of the ecological crises facing us, from global warming to the wasteful use of finite resources. One doesn't have to believe TV is all to blame for this to heed McKibben's lessons about the omnipresent box. Like turn it off once in a while...