8/28: Stop Global Warming- Buy Art!
Rebecca Daugherty, Green Boat, Orange Stripe III
oil on panel, 10" x 10", $425
Here's a new one from Rebecca. It's been cool here the last few days, and suddenly people are asking "how was your summer?". For some, the cool weather seems to be proof that global warming is a hoax wrought by liberal propagandists.
For the past two months- ever since "An Inconvenient Truth" showed at the Opera House, letter writers in the local paper have been debating the veracity of global warming. It's strange how it has become a political argument, rather than a scientific one. At this point, any observation about the weather is likely to instigate blatantly opposite observations by those affiliated with opposing political parties. "It's hot," one might observe, which draws the inevitable response "no hotter than usual, we're heading for an ice age, and it has nothing to do with air pollution or anything else that might adversely effect the stock market should corporations need to take responsibility for anything."
I find it hard to understand why it's so important for some people to deny that global warming is real, but they seem to fear that acknowledging it will somehow threaten their values and way of life, along with their God-given right to wreck the planet. And yes, they're afraid of messing with the stock market. So my modest proposal is this: don't invest in the stock market; buy art instead. It probably won't save the planet, or pay off any better than the stock market, but at least you can enjoy it until the world ends in fire... or ice, or whatever.
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