More and more activists and writers are concerned with the health of our planet. And their books are being snapped up by concerned readers. The world is off balance with extreme storms and flooding on one hand and widespread drunks on the other. Tassie is a melting and Sea Levels Rising is catastrophic Global Climate change upon us no one is going to destroy the world except for us and nobody is going to save the world except for us putting aside natural fluctuations humans are responsible for 100 percent of the global warming. Can the world still be saved is a question that a growing number of writers are asking themselves along with the new genre climate fight climate fiction the topic also looms large in the field of nonfiction. Where the weather is the latest book by bestselling author Jonathan Safran foer he believes that saving the planet begins at breakfast. Its time we changed the way we eat. It doesnt always look or feel big often looks and feels quite modest. Im going to have oatmeal or so i know in my coffee instead of cows milk all right that doesnt work well on a Bumper Sticker or a t. Shirt nobody you know raise the fists of the sky and says oh. But if we all did it if we all made changes just like that. We would save the planet. Every state q. E. Takes a toll on the environment Scientists Say cattle farming and extensive agriculture cause about one 3rd of total emissions. Burning the rainforests the planets green lungs and fossil fuels also does its part to heat the planet. Many plant and animal species a heading for extinction diesel one example and the disturbing promise of the bestselling novel the history of days by no region right at my end under. The 3rd installment in the climate quartet has just been published in german translation. It deals with the survival of a rare breed of course and humankind responsibility finnick chair. Oh yeah we understand on my. Objective level that we should change the way we live because our planet meet needs it but now we start to understand more deeply and i think it novel is true be it way to get that understanding at least thats what the readers tell me. Will nature as we know it someday exists only in novels and memorise the warning signs a multiplying and ever more anomaly one recent study predicted that rising sea levels could inundate vast coastal. Regions of the islands in the mediterranean. Route into space which translates as wild weather is a science based book written for the name by physicist and Climate Research at fleet of ica auto she compares and contrasts weather events of today with data from preindustrial times that amounts to proof of manmade Climate Change is the most exciting but one that is to show how what we scientists are doing is different from what us President Trump is doing by the facts we found are different from these alternative facts. I think its important to understand that so we can keep actual facts separate from alternative facts. On the. Climate questions have never before been so prominent at the book for revenues for nonfiction books in german on the topic rose 10 percent this year. The demand for information seems endless. The book fair is responding with Panel Discussions on the relationship between humankind and nature. The Climate Crisis is definitely helping shift books. Its catastrophe sells when its your catastrophe it sells even better right but one of the things were seeing that is the nicer side of that and perhaps the most hopeful side is that were starting to come together around the Climate Crisis in a world that is very politically torn to pieces were finding the new enemy. Its mainly younger people who are getting active the world over theyre demanding action from the politicians now because it involves appeals to the powerful have made waves even in the book trade messages get involved. In germany publishing houses are also getting involved and thinking about sustainability. Some have done away with plastic packaging. The whole topic. Publishing group has resolved to reduce its sea into footprint. And the obstacles to this puppy are far the greatest problem is the paper Still Producing it consumes lots of energy its and that makes up 70 percent of our Carbon Footprint and also another big part comes from transporting a paper and books for us and for together that amounts to another 20 percent and we also consider the c o 2 output of our business trips and our employees commutes to and from work wise and. The company is leading the way for the industry and taking a big step towards greater environmental responsibility. One small a publisher meanwhile has gone completely climbing with notebooks made of grass paper thats fully compatible. It seems Climate Change has arrived in the world of books and publishing. That ask yourself goddess eloquent photographs also tell of the destruction being wreaked upon our world and the suffering of humankind he is the recipient of this years peace prize of the german book trade. During the 1980 s. There was a gold rush in brazil more than 50000 young men worked at the sarah palin mine. The working and Living Conditions were appalling Sebastiano Gatto documented the situation with a series of powerful photographs. Those pictures are now on display at the photograph his community im in stockholm. Green to violence hardship. These stark black and white images were taken in 1986 so i got those photographs won him world wide recognition and confirmed his uncompromising passion for this art form. To be a football the 1st finger must be a book. No of a person can be a foot of you must have a place for the big players of the photograph to be there to. Walk with the light walk all the plans of the composition photography is a stethoscope quite depressed that will run out and he wants to have these. Gardens photos are so well composed that they almost seem staged some critics accused him of glorifying human suffering but he says he simply protrade the situation as it was. The photographs capture a fraction of a 2nd in time but it took him weeks to prepare for the shots. To spend 35 days in a me with this big i sleep with that i eat the it became part of then that means they were there for the wanted to be even with this guy in that allowed me to do a series of pictures. There was a lot of drinking and violence at the mine police were often called to the scene. The police where it was just the present that informs the state if you look at the walker is holding the colonel off the rifle but the poorest man has a gun in the other hand weve the finger prepared to push up the the walk here will not happen. This is a pit but sometimes the fire in some week you. Saw those career was the subject of a 2014 film that was codirected by his son. So i got a grew up on a ranch in southern brazil later he earned a masters degree in economics. In 1969 he was exiled by brazils military dictatorship. Salgado and his wife fled to france he taught himself photography and became a freelancer his work was shaped by the poverty and violence hed seen in his youth if there were a photographer from sweden for crabs. I had another view of the planet was that they were looking from here to solve the planet for the poor but i born in brazil who when i showed you pictures like these were. Its not to provoke a conflict in the course of what is on the shore on the side my side of the war. So gotta chronicled the plight of migrants in a book of photographs called exodus. He took pictures of the civil war in rwanda and was one of the 1st to bring the conflict to the worlds attention. Later sagal combined photographs of landscapes wildlife and people who were living in ancestral communities into a project called genesis. So that those photographs are known for their compositional beauty and integrity. This one was taken at a fool a National Park in zambia. For his latest projects im going to return to brazil to cover the devastation of the emma zone rain forest since the 1960 s. Nearly 20 percent of the forest has been destroyed so god says president. Has done nothing to stop the forestation heres what they think satisfaction for the next hes allowed for war it destroyed for us now because of the International Pressure hes saying that this for a 2nd for just not the true. So i gotto and his wife continue to use their photographs to call attention to the exploitation of people and our planet. Yes. But he has no desire to get involved in politics he lets his photograph speak for him. On the to this im not. Off in the political bot. I think my life inside the way this story and my pictures a little bit of it is well. This is just my way off like. Sebastiano saw gado is the 1st photographer to win the peace prize of the German Publishers Association in honor of his lifes work. Digital advances are also creating a people as well as exciting opportunities which are leaving their mark on literature to. The arts plus festival at the Frankfurt Book Fair explores the future of culture and creativity blogs being read. How will Artificial Intelligence affect the future of literature and culture. Will go volunteer feels comfortable in both worlds moment as an author himself and the founder of the arts plus bestival of Digital Culture and hes been studying the Creative Power of machines if you werent caught you just sing off if you mess up were featuring Artificial Intelligence here at the book fair because it could play an Important Role in publishing for example in marketing toward it but itll take a few years before Artificial Intelligence will be able to write a quality not sure. Now will travel from the Frankfurt Book Fair to the few turia berlins newly opened house of futures were meeting 2 authors meaning mondo who was born in india and now lives in new york. And can call who was born in the us and now lives in vienna and berlin and both writers are fascinated with the possibilities that a. This is. Fantastic. And i think its a really interesting subject. As it dates back to frankenstein. Ai somehow manages to combine all these different topics and fantasies. In her latest book lyall feel cotton portrays a wide variety of futuristic fantasies including time travel and parallel universes where thoughts become a reality a world of cyborg or human beings are not the measure of all things. I see a number of different reality options and that includes intelligence that we cant possibly imagine. If you turion exhibition makes the unimaginable a bit more understandable what sort of art will machines be able to create. They just reproduce the original material thats been fed into them what would poetry generated by in her own network look like. On your left and right or tree and the thing is because board is already a little abstract off so the neural net sporty often reads like a real person. Where is the poetry coming from then why does that make sense if a machine has written a woman and you still get feelings from it then where where does the soul thats creating that. Theres need was a serious challenge to our concept of human Creative Genius can machines really express the same sentiments as those that are found in the soul of a human artist or has that concept become outdated. What is a so it is a very politically loaded question because its one of the things that the colonizers the christians once and used against slaves and black people and people of other. Communities saying that its ok to treat these people like animals because they dont have a soul like only the christian has a soap. Meaning one doll was born in kolkata into the socalled untouchable cost which has suffered discrimination for centuries meaning believes that ai could provide people with an opportunity to fight injustice and make the world a better place. Theres discrimination in big data which like changes their responses to certain people as opposed to other people and now that like this is a possibility of being able to reason for itself theres a large question that y. Is Still Dreaming and already not one of the most privileged people in the world so i am not one of the people who will lose far if theres a different world order maybe its the conservatives who should be who arent. And cotton goes a step further she envisions opposed to minister aging which people have simply become superfluous. Pasta with those with some for their lives discovered in the post humanism is an interesting concept i enjoy playing around with the idea of having a world that gets along just fine without human beings just life will go on without them that may be my favorite fantasy. Of course in a world like that and cotton herself would become redundant holger valan doesnt think much of such apocalyptic visions. Problems like mushy and increase the fish ive given is kind of mean why should machines create art when there are no people around to appreciate it besides i think its a terrible idea and its not going to happen anytime soon. Artificial intelligence is really good it can occur and various kinds of data but not agreeing are just so moch. And arts class the new york Media Theatre Company 3 legged dog shows what such a dystopian future might look like. People stranded in an underground complex subjected. To the whims of Artificial Intelligence but even this vision was created by human imagination. Time now to head to norway this years guest of honor at the frank 1st book fair we visit bergen the wettest city in europe to see how the country inspires its writers. Its raining and dark and. It usually is but the bleak weather makes for a 1st child literary scene and overcast skies creativity is flourishing. Many leave the city and move away many dont manage to live in berrigan for long the prison like rain the damp confinement between the hills makes you sick and weary of life youre forced to live behind closed doors alone or in small families. Thomas s. But ill write about every day ordinary experience and about his home city. The music scene is very good the literature it seems very good because of this just feeling of despair and being in close to him between 7 mountains and i like i really like the people. And the mentality i like the language the way they speak very very cruel and harsh and very very very annoying and very insulting very arrogant i love that. But theres another mentality he doesnt like for centuries bergen was a busy poor and trade quarter affluence to the city. Just a lot of only money and and thats the law says these families are narrow minded conservative and obsessed with their wealth. So ill just say that with all. Old traders all these old families and to hospitals take over the firm and youre supposed to and then you have this homosexual sutton all this artistic gall to say that destroys everything i like to. Anyone who can afford it lives in the hills away from the picturesque Historic City Center by you know ska World Heritage site its now a popular tourist attraction i mean usually teeming with visitors many of whom arrive on huge cruise ships. To see the changelog the shops chaves interest to pretty much the biggest probably the biggest ability. What was that he said about bergen as being insulting and theres also another burton a city thats proud of its arts and culture such as the National Stage theres a well henrik ibsen was writer in residence and art director. Of the coda art museums currently hosting an exhibition of work by edward monk. The university and its libraries. And literature house complete with an impressive bookstore. And of course its writing academy where young with us from across the country come to hone their craft. World famous writer karl over glasgow was one of the schools 1st students in 1988 and thomas s but al was his teacher suddenly you have this situation where there are really good writers living at the same office as you so we were challenging in the charter what can we do away with what can we do radically in that i would do something radical with literature and of course i would do it even more radical than the sort of competition. It gave rise to a highly also biographical and subjective style thats deeply personal steeped in ones eyes and selfdoubt and minute plea detailed and completely. Ignores the privacy office. The last communist socialist country in in the north and europe it was the swedish Prime Minister who said alice true because there was a still social democratic colleagues who way of thinking so you are supposed to take care of your neighbor and to be appalled to the collective you shouldnt say. So there was no in the church except the hopes of the use to great exception of everything and we discovered that. And it was that they would say who he or she thinks he or she is who do you think you are. A free man who speaks his mind thomas s. But i would no doubt. These days class god lives in sweden for the cafe operator where he used to meet up with a budding writers is still a fashionable hangout powers handing bags for organizes regular readings here tonight hes presenting an anthology of work by 12 local poets. Down not. Only that we have to do something i mean it rains all the time theres 300. 00 days of rain a year so you have to do something we have to we have to sort of. That starts or a solution i guess towards depression. Going crazy and we we we we have to. Be creative to start. To survive in a country whose people have a pretty good standard of living thanks to the oil thats been flowing from noways offshore oil fields for almost 50 years. Even future generations will benefit future wise Government Investment in the profits yet many no regions are in 2 minds about the exploitation of oil reserves. We know that we live from this for so. Fuel which is bad for the whole globe on this or my my choice of is living from this. Growing up. Surviving on this money i think a lot of the writers on north this deal with this home are if they get state funding they dont at the state funding is all money so are they going to horror hard again erected us. Literature doesnt necessarily have the answer. We all know that the good times around them says thomas s. But all his advice enjoy life while you can. Have enjoyed if not you stupid i mean write those its not the job to take part in this. Celebration. That was our arts 21. 00 special from the Frankfurt Book Fair all you bookworms out there visit argue tube channel or books see you next time. For. Culture. Hair. Superman. Superfood stylish dialogue on. Let os. Life style during. The moment. You know that 77 percent obama because i yelled at anything because. All the 77 percent talk about big issues stuff my. Damndest superman susan moon is a champion drug free mosquito sped past competitors for the success of a few dumbest men takes notice of steam. In 160. 00. 0. 0. 000000000. 0. 000000000 jewish and justice and freedom in the 1st words of the German National land. Through Central Valley was that formed the foundation of this country plato have these values developed to postwar germany. Hard is it to live by and defend the principles of limited justice and freedom in our everyday lives. Our germany the country series starts october 21st d w. A. A very lively october fest that of racial this is not in germany mark on that coming up in the show and with a wall welcome to your own backs and this is what else we have and still for you. To warn