Pop stars and musicians from continent to continent. Countless artworks and installations are flown around the world for market fairs and exhibitions. And architects use huge amounts of resources for their constructions the Culture Industries c o 2 footprint. That has to change and thats our topic today starting off with a look at the whole picture the Climate Crisis has become a hot topic worldwide largely due to the Younger Generation who have been very vocal in demanding solutions they want to see Decisive Action now. Changes with quiet still nowhere in sight. Meanwhile politicians are still debating the issue and have a hard time agreeing on a course of action. For 25 years we have been trying to solve the Climate Crisis through Market Mechanisms and emissions have gone up year after year after year you know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for different results globalization critic and environmental activist naomi klein warns that our planet is on fire and she says politicians dont dare to take radical measures to stop this weather out of ignorance or the fear that they wont get reelected meanwhile Big Energy Companies fund campaigns to make us believe the free market will solve the problem. We have an economic system. That defines success as and less Economic Growth and much of that growth is is connected to an ideology of endless consumption that is incompatible with what our planet can take and so we need a different economic paradigm. The north American Intellectual calls her envisions a new paradigm the Green New Deal the name alludes to then u. S. President franklin d. Roosevelt new deal a series of programs projects and reforms in the 1930 s. That helped the us recover from the great depression. Introducing Social Security and promoting a sense of community were important aspect. When he talked about the depression he wasnt only talking about the economy being depressed but also people were depressed right so how do you lift up the people spirit and part of that was need access to nature and part of that was access to the arts. Klein says the environmental concepts that politicians have introduced so far often harm the weakest members of society for instance in france where rising fuel taxes protests social tensions are also growing due to Climate Change but as those in power have failed to come up with compelling concepts populists are capitalizing on the situation. So naomi klein advocates taking another tack making massive investments in Renewables Green infrastructure and Affordable Housing that would create new jobs one she says need to be well paid. Klein says jobs in industries that are Carbon Neutral should be highly paid while professions that damage the environment must no longer be profitable but how would such a thing be financed klein says its time the wealthy were made to pay their share along with the Energy Companies whove long. Profited from fossil fuels. d litter pace means all kinds of things like from a track financial transaction tax to cutting military spending i mean if were going to get to 100 Percent Renewable Energy then we dont need to spend more than a trillion dollars protecting pipelines around the world so that money can move over to a Green New Deal in some cases we may be needing to nationalize fossil fuel companies. Conny is using Climate Change as an example to promote her radical criticism of capitalism in december Commission President funny line laid out her European Green deal to tackle Climate Change but klein doesnt think it goes far enough she seeks a systems change if the Green New Deal is not guided by science and guided by justice and that doesnt mean just cutting our emissions very very rapidly it also means putting real resources on the table so poor countries in the global south are able to leapfrog over fossil fuels and go directly to Renewable Energy and if it doesnt have really Strong Social guarantees then you know its not really a Green New Deal. But how could this Green New Deal come about klein says we need to stop seeing ourselves primarily as consumers only when we start seeing ourselves as part of the Larger Community will we be able to effect real change this shift is already happening in many countries thanks to young Climate Change activists theyre not afraid of change theyre not afraid of dreaming of a different system other than the one we have right now because its not like oh this is jim its working great except for the small matter of you know melting ice sheets. A new age of protest has begun. And change must come quickly to prevent much of the planet any underwater. When the waters rise Gideon Mendel goes for his camera. He takes photos of people in areas hit by flooding. The people seen in them havent yet come through the disaster. And like them he himself stands in the midst of the floodwaters. The 3rd enough to photograph from a boat you know because i think if im standing in the water i can position myself in a way where they face photographs and obviously its a dangerous difficult place to be but ive said theres something that im. Seeing in the flood so which i find your honesty creativity very compelling. You stand shoulder to shoulder with the disaster victims. The photographer has been traveling to flood zones for some 12 years now collecting material for his long term project drowning world. He was inspired by becoming a father. He wanted to give his children some idea of the challenges their world would be facing in the future. Climate change you know in the last 20 years the more think were looking towards a future where flooding is going to become you know a more and more frequent and more scary part of our lives. Amanda has lived in london since the early 1990 s. He frequents a park in the north of the british capital. And she sees it as a special place the site of a pioneering feat of engineering and urban water hygiene and early sewage works. This is one of the places where they 1st began to filter londons water and so they you know there were various color bricks. In the 18th century and they used. To photo water through. Clean water is also a priority for these brazilians washing the walls of their homes in the hope that the floods will soon recede. The photographer found the images of Climate Change familiar from the news too impersonal images of. Distant places and i thought theres a strong need for something which was. I wanted to make something which could be very impactful where kind of the victims of Climate Change could look you directly in the arts they are survivors the man from the amazon and from india. Many of them lost their homes and possessions. But not their dignity. Their waiting to return to their houses like Florence Abraham from nigeria. In a transit camp she took him to a flooded house. She was a poker her home and her very group was confronted there she asked everything. Men dont offer her a few dollars in thanks for her willingness to take part in his photo project and try to give her the money and she said to me no i dont want your money i want you to show the world whats happened to me. Also wanted to show the world what was happening when he shot his 1st photos in the 1980 s. Images of racial unrest in his home country south africa. Over the years instead of. The austere black and white for color and distance himself from the long established photo essay style for magazines. To strive for aesthetic compositions as in his flood line series. There is some sort of following the water. That is a situation of great chaos and disorder and i find this of compelled to make these very structured very precise emissions. Sometimes quite abstract. But the images as theyre equalities never overshadow their messages they draw the viewers attention. Increasingly theyre being shown at arts events in galleries and open air exhibitions. Mendel sees himself as both an artist and an activist. These prints are part of a set of what are called drawing world shields which are actually there were produced for the protests around the cup 21. 00 conference in paris we made just under a 100 of them as. Part of Climate Change versus. Demonstrators in paris made good use of the. Climate protests have long since become a mass phenomenon echoing them mental says the apocalypse is already happening. Initially i was working to. Khaled crisis which could destroy the lives of my children but as things are looking now this really could destroy my life you know i think we could be looking at huge comical and calamity within the next 10 to 15 years. Artists are often among the 1st to see the signs of the times. In november 29000 Swiss Television was filming a new episode of the crime series touch or. On screen it was about murder and mayhem but off camera there was a greater focus on the environment. The Film Industry needs to go green for example hollywood is one of the biggest polluters in greater los angelos. Its Technology Bright lights extravagant sets consume vast amounts of energy. The further my climates calculated the Carbon Footprint less. Each day from shooting the swiss t. V. Crime show. It came to 32. 00 tons of c o 2. Many of the emissions resulted from the vehicles used on hotel stays so now the shooting where most of the crew lives in syracuse. Alone save 10 tons of c o 2. But my claim it found ways to minimize their Carbon Footprint even more. Having each crew member used their own coffee mug. Using vegan makeup. And 2nd hand costumes. And serving vegetarian food. Whats really important is to include the people working on the project. And. This was screw all got the message and were happy to do the part. London 29000. Thats a gallery is to clear the Climate Emergency. Museum hopes to reduce its c o 2 emissions by 10 percent by 2023 by switching to Green Electricity and using the train for business trips that sounds good but its just the beginning. Because the art world can be wasteful with opulent buildings. Large open spaces that need lots of lighting and constant climate control. Not to mention all of the art shows art fairs and exhibitions with works alone from all over the world and International Visitors but cannot be both sustainable and wild and free. Yes. Now is the time for us to change our relationship to this planet. So that were no longer the cause of so much damage on the future. And early january a major exhibition by only for a listen close at the tate modern for years hes tried to raise consciousness of the word. As for gelati through as art but the shows opening he placed blocks of ice from greenland in front of the museum 122 tons worth to give people a real sense of the glaciers melting. This ice watch project also left behind a chilling legacy a sizable Carbon Footprint. January 2020 an exhibition at the eye of this Architecture Forum tells woody tales but it has nothing to do with quaint or charming. Architects even a jewish and your from the Company People who are passionate about new projects that have big potential for shaping the future. Price of oil is not what is a great material its available locally in many countries and if its grown sustainably itll always grow back to supply future generations for the. Also its breathable and a good insulator plus its a very pleasant material for interiors in. Verna indeed wish say its high time the Construction Industry became more environmental and sustainable and less obsessed with profit so the 2 women have become active in architects will feature a nationwide collaboration of german architects and Civil Engineers its true the industry doesnt have a good record when it comes to climate protection it keeps using more land while churning out mountains of waste and c o 2 emissions 40 percent of what germany puts into the atmosphere the worst offender is concrete. Sustainable material simply cant compete with the nonsustainable ones because the emissions on calculated or figured into the costs and cost. Architects for future are calling for. Greater transparency and fully accountable pricing more funding for research and sustainable construction and i mean tully new way of thinking on the part of plans. To tie sustainability ought to be a heart of every project and not considered separately and its also very important for the universities to demonstrate how much fun it can be to plan sustainability and what a creative and exciting challenge it can be with an incredible number of possible solutions and. This was once a barracks 1st it was crushed and then reprocess thats recycled concrete these great blocks are ready for their next walls. They may not be Carbon Neutral but at least theyre being reused in new developments going up here in munich with the space of 5500 apartments. But the problem in germany is quite simply that we dont have any sand left. So we dont have any new spaces for garbage dumps but we have lots of buildings standing empty for whatever reason for not wanting the materials wouldnt have to be hauled in from china or the us katanga shift the size of a human we wouldnt have to extract the materials from the earths crust anymore but from other buildings and infrastructures we can reprocess these materials as new Building Materials to flow back into the city into the constructed environment about it. In one example about half of the 1700000 tons of materials from a demolished building not to be recycled the other half is waste made unusable through glue chemicals or having been mixed with materials that turn into Hazardous Waste of the demolition 60 percent of germanys garbage is construction waste. Is cut back on so i can do lots of things better with improved Structural Design then with Chemical Treatment you have to find a way back to the old master builders. The wood in half. Timbered houses last 4 to 500 years just because they used a totally different Structural Design. Learning from the past and preserving resources for the future the Solutions Needed to do that are not always the fastest or the cheapest or theyre hampered by red tape cutting through all this requires far sightedness. When you plan something new or convert existing structures for other uses you should bear in mind that youre planning for future generations and not just for the next 30 years. Where you might also have to consider that the architecture that we present to the media sets examples for how to approach design. Past or how the buildings should lock or have after Old Buildings are always demonstrations of power amongst its own. A suburb in zurich here new ways of building a living are regularly tried out in a special Research Place 3 german architects have conceived in designed a 120 square meter apartment thats 100 percent recyclable and most of the materials its made of have themselves been recycled. Using your mother yard in the objects the materials we see here used to be seltzer bottles or juice cartons before that door handle that was already used in the seventys is now in use again for example 5 and often this is a way of showing people that today its possible to plan in terms of cycles of that though and to live that way too sweeping you want to leave. The countertop of melted down recycled glass was made by a startup in cologne. The sides of the kitchen unit are made of pressed carrot and potato peelings. The insulation is made up the fiber genes. The paneling in the bath is hard plastic taken from all cutting boards and bottle caps. And the walls consist of wood chips combined with a tender fungus that actually makes them grow. The vision is of an entire city built exclusively of materials it has produced by itself of buildings intelligently converted and maintained using available materials and without producing new waste the thing thats the ideal city the city of the future you might call it urban mining always on the search for what the city can provide and for ways of reusing it it would have to be an ongoing exchange whenever something has. To be built somewhere youd have to see whats no longer needed somewhere else that would serve your purposes and. Rapidly changing societies need a constant flow of new ideas even if different parts of the world face different challenges every problem can have viable Innovative Solutions the architects feature optimistic that these solutions can be found. In Film Industries are hardly Carbon Neutral streams consumes vast amounts of electricity and huge tolls and live events also impacted negatively on th