Together, the artworks provide a creative yet critical discussion of pressing issues like environmental destruction, consumerism, and the effects of mass production.
X-Ray Spex's music caught the wave of the moment, softening punk's anarchic tone with tracks about subjects including environmental destruction and consumerism.
Teddy Goldsmith holds that natural tribal societies function and industrial humanity is doomed to family breakdown, drug addiction, mindless consumerism, environmental catastrophe and collapse.
The audience for animated film is broad, far broader than action adventure, and since James Cameron's eco-laden Avatar (still the highest grossing film of all time) and the superb Pixar hit Wall-E that addressed consumerism, environmental issues and the immense impact humans are having on this planet, film-makers have been comfortable addressing social issues they might shun in other genres.
Of course, there is a growing movement of people everywhere to effect incremental, cumulative change, such as local cooperatives, ethical sustainability, ethical treatment of animals, environmental protection, responsible consumerism, community volunteerism, and so on.
There's been a workshop on how to fight evictions (always a relevant topic in a rapidly gentrifying city) and a class on how to turn old t-shirts into panties to curb environmental waste and consumerism.
To many pioneers of the environmental movement, eco-consumerism, creeping for decades, is intensely frustrating and detracts from Earth Day's original purpose.
Do you really think that the only allowable mechanism for environmental protection is green consumerism?ROBERT AYRESINSEADFontainebleau, FranceSIR World trade rules can themselves frequently lead to environmental damage.
But Mr. Vogrin's art, rendered in bright sign enamel and fed by his outrage at social injustice, violence, consumerism and environmental destruction, is vigorous, unsettling and insistent.
