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People are causing enormous shifts on this planet now. The Gulf oil "gusher" is just one example. Leading activist environmental artist, educator and author Beverly Naidus will join us to discuss how activist art can most effectively address the problems and questions we face today.
Panelists Riki Ott, Aviva Rahmani, and Debbie Fleming Caffery, moderated by Patricia Watts will discuss the spill, its aftermath, and the role of the arts as tellers/revealers of truth. There will be a webcast component and connection to the GULF to GULF project as well as a connection to an arts center in New Orleans, LA.
Dr. R. Eugene Turner , expert on dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana State University, Louisiana will join Rahmani, White and others for "SOS Gulf to Gulf."
After the lights go out on the Gulf of Mexico, what will be left and how can we nurture the remains of our day? We have degraded and mutilated the natural fertility of estuaries and wetlands for short-sighted opportunism. Change is not impossible but it is imperative.
In the bible, housekeeping, the female equivalent of husbandry, is cited over and over again as the most fundamental relationship we can have with life. Today, we have the most anguished experience of witnessing first hand, what it means to abandon that caretaking, degrade natural fertility and disconnect from our relationship with life, in the unfolding drama of the Gulf of Mexico. Restoring what we have murdered back to life will take a resurrection miracle. Finding clues to enable that miracle is the focus of "SOS Gulf to Gulf."
View this episode at: https://citiesandoceansofif.webex.com/citiesandoceansofif/ldr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=1123237&rKey=f8f99c38b151b585
People are causing enormous shifts on this planet now. The Gulf oil "gusher" is just one example. Leading activist environmental artist, educator and author Beverly Naidus will join us to discuss how activist art can most effectively address the problems and questions we face today.
R. Eugene Turner, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
School of the Coast and Environment
Louisiana State University, April 27, 2010: "The oil 'leak' is 1000 barrels daily (estimate), because the blow out preventer is mostly working. but if it fails, then the leak could turn into 60,000 - 100,000 barrels a day. to scale this, the exxon valdez was, I think, a total of 11 million barrels, total. It will take, under the present best-scenario case that I've heard about, about 2 to 3 months to cap it. But then there is a nearby leak from a collapsed drilling rig that hasn't been capped for 7 years. That leak is in 75 feet of water. this one is in 5000 feet. The technical challenges are enormous. Imagine trying to find a 18 inch pipe to intercept in 5,000 feet of water, by starting at an angle, cutting through the mud from several under yards away. That's what they are going to try to do. Meanwhile, there are some pretty nice oyster beds that should get the oil in a few days, and beaches, and tourists, and 40% of the US wetlands; crazy times." Conversation about the relationships between oil extraction, water and food resources and politico-economic realities that are driving climate change and humans over the cliff of sustainability.
