Transform
CO2 into diamonds. It is what some Danish artist proposed to Chinese authorities
as a response to reduce unbearable levels of pollution that their major cities
have reached, due to several decades of irresponsible behavior of this hybrid social
model that combines wild capitalism with bold communism. If we were to look
into the mythology, the closest representation of this hybrid creation would be Hydra, the seven headed monster from the Greek mythology. For every head chopped
off, the Hydra would regrow one or multiple heads.
So, in this
story the Artist proposed converting pollution into diamonds and hydra (of
course) both it.
What Hydra
knows is that the purpose of art has never been to solve the problem, but to
bring it out to human attention. What the Artist doesn’t (or doesn’t want to)
know is the power that hydra has over our attention. It controls almost all the
channels that shape the human attention. And any idea that helps hydra keep all
its heads at the same place is more than welcome.
It is all
part of the same plot I’ve been writing before, where Hydra (or TINA how I
prefer to call it) makes us believe that eventually some witty
genius entrepreneur will come up with a solution to clear the Earth from the
CO2 and all the other waste it leaves behind. So brother, why
bother?
Well brother
you need to bother, because it’s all just a big scam to drive your attention
from what really matters. It’s the part of the same script as the one suggested
last year by Harvard professors[1]
who advised that it is “technically possible” to decrease the atmosphere temperature
by shooting in diamonds dust into air.
We are
social animals and our brains are in a constant need for coherent stories. So
if you have diamonds made out of Chinese CO2 and you need to shoot diamante
dust into air in order to make planet a better place to live, all you need is
to put 1+1 together and Voilá! We can finally relax, keep on pumping in CO2 and
pave our streets and build our houses with diamonds.
Take that
you green communist bastards!
Well
brother, if you believe that story than you are ready to live on Mars.
[1] Solar geoengineering using
solid aerosol in the stratosphere. D. K. Weisenstein, D. W. Keith, and J. A.
Dykema. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15, 2015
www.atmos-chem-phys.net/15/11835/2015/ doi:10.5194/acp-15-11835-2015
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