Climate control. An ability, in this weather, I would quite enjoy possessing. It’s raining, my shoes are dirty. And my umbrella is broken. Of course, there are far more pressing issues to our erratically-altered weather system than my precipitation-based problems, such as polar ice caps melting, islands lost to rising seas, plant extinction etc. But either way – it’s bad. We should all be paying attention. If there’s anybody capable of making us do so then Dame Viv’s your woman, not least for the fact it’s a cause she has an impressive, neigh encyclopedic, knowledge of. Also because she’s quite domineering. Hard to say no. So tonight when she talks, you listen – the activist and founder of Climate Revolution opening the Climate Control exhibition in Manchester via a talk called Intellectuals Unite, imparting her wisdom to fresh-faced students.
As the university say, “it isn’t an exhibition about depressing stories of climate change, but focuses on giving visitors opportunities to get really creative, to express what matters to them and what kind of world they would like to live in.” And we would quite like to live in a world where our lungs aren’t filled with pollution and we actually have a country that isn’t entirely underwater in 20 years. Inspired? You can watch the whole talk live on Periscope from 5pm today, right here.
Climate Control runs from 11 May to 4 September 2016. Admission is free.
Photograph by Jason Lloyd-Evans
