The climate is changing in the here and now and the consequences are already serious. But for scientists, an important question remains: how do you get people to care? Distressing warnings and images of melting glaciers and burning forests – the list goes on – have become standard tools, but people are becoming demonstrably desensitized to these approaches.
So how else can you communicate the most pressing issue of our lives? It turns out that music offers a way out.
Imagine yourself in one of the largest concert halls in the world. The conductor raises the baton and you begin to hear the complex story of thirty years of climate change in the Arctic – as expressed through instruments such as violins, violas and cellos – weaving into chapters of tense and plaintive music.
