Why Celebrities Won't Save Us (From Climate Change)
Heyyo! Hope you’re holding up well. I just released a new video so, here’s the companion email with three quotes and three links. Enjoy!
Three Quotes:
“The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power”
— Wael Ghonim
“There can be no rich people without poor people; the rich depend upon the poor. But the poor don’t need the rich, we only need each other. This is the power of the masses.”
— The Red Nation (from The Red Deal)
“Celebrities are inherently and necessarily associated with a world of entertainment and consumption. Consequently, their role as activists can at best succeed in convincing the public to behave as a mass of ‘better consumers’ at the expense of more critical forms of citizenship that could make a powerful difference in carbon-based political economies.”
— Elena Siniscalco
Three Links:
‘Charismatic megafauna’: The growing power of celebrities and pop culture in climate change campaigns (Maxwell T. Boykoff et al.)
Al Gore's Carbon Footprint Doesn't Matter (The New Republic)
The Star Power of Jane Fonda’s Climate-Change Arrests (The New Yorker)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie