Consistency and ethics do not often go hand in hand. Let's move to Paris, where COP21 is taking place these days. The greats of the planet gathered in the French capital to find an agreement aimed at containing the global increase in temperatures by 2 ° C. But not all that glitters is gold
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Consistency and ethics do not often go hand in hand. Let's move to Paris, where the (COP21),. The greats of the planet gathered in the French capital to find an agreement aimed at containing the global increase temperatures within 2 ° C. But not all that glitters is gold.
Despite the proclamations, the expressed intentions and the promises, the UN climate conference he has a side that hardly suits his spirit.
Appearance that has not escaped the artist team of Brandalism, which has placed an emphasis on the advertisements that sponsor the Cop21. In Paris these days, posters on climate negotiations have appeared, signed by great polluters such as Air France, Dow Chemicals and GDF-Suez-Energie. According to Brandalism they promote themselves as part of the solution when in they are actually part of the problem.
“Brandalism starts from the democratic conviction that the street is a place of communication, which belongs to the citizens and the communities that live there. It is a rebellion against the visual onslaught of media giants and advertising moguls who have total control over the messages and meaning in our public spaces, through which they force-feed us with images and messages to make us insecure, unhappy. , and to encourage shopping " complaint the team.
Thus, the artists have accomplished further 600 works of art that denounced the control of multinationals during the climate negotiations, works installed in recent days in Paris in the appropriate advertising spaces.
According to Bill Posters of Brandalism, after the tragic events in Paris on November 13, the government has decided to ban the mobilization of civil society, but the main events of the companies were kept.
Furthermore, the multinationals responsible for climate change, according to Posters, have been given the opportunity to continue doing "Greenwashing" around their destructive economic model.
"We cannot leave climate negotiations solely in the hands of politicians and lobbyists who are primarily responsible for the current chaos."
How to blame them?
Francesca Mancuso
Photo: Brandalism
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