Measures are carried out by specific people within specific contexts. What wretched soul wouldn’t acknowledge that the planet, our home, is at grave risk and that we must act now? What kind of person would oppose saving our planet for their own personal interest? Who wants to be that Donald Trump who stands against Greta Thunberg? We need to stop airplane travel and look for other ways of sharing”.Īt first, your proposal seems impeccable. Something like “the performance art field needs to drastically change its habits in order to reduce its carbon footprint. It would seem as though what started as a personal decision-refusing to use air travel for your work-developed into a more general and ambitious call for the performance art field as a whole. What you propose deserves to be discussed thoroughly, and in order to do that we must consider the complexities it entails. Most of the time this information came to me in English, but sometimes I read you in Spanish via Google translator from French so, although I get your main arguments, there could be nuances, details or colors I am missing.

During the next few months, every now and then Facebook’s algorithm would show me one of your posts and, with it, the thought of this campaign would come back, until one day a friend of mine asked me for my opinion on the matter, and so I decided to organize my ideas and share them with you.Īnd so this text is a reaction to ideas you have shared on social media and in some articles and interviews I was able to find. I scribbled some notes in my diary and then forgot about it. There was quite an awkward feeling attached to them. Your ideas kept spinning in my head, and not in a peaceful way at all. I felt implicated in the discussion and I found that your impulse to speak up on the issue was praiseworthy. When, more than a year ago, I heard about your campaigning against air travel in the performing arts field, I remembered that story. How do you convince someone that, sometimes, their personal interest cannot be placed above the greater good?

When they confronted the old woman, she confessed that her husband had Alzheimer’s, and that the birds’ presence was the only thing that brought him back to the present time, the only time of the year were they could still experience something together. The group of scientists went to see the woman, explaining to her the situation and after asking her to stop feeding the birds, she agreed.īut during the following migration season, the birds stopped on the island again and the scientists noticed she was still giving them food. The scientists were unaware of what caused this unusual behavior, until they realized that an oldwoman from the island used to feed the birds, and so they stayed.

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