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Our desire to own things, that is have personal control and
use of those same things, has led to a market-driven, consumerist way of life
that drives the circumstances manifesting themselves as earth’s changing
climate system.
Few things illustrate that better than the recent sale of an
original Picasso painting at auction for nearly $200 million.
The painting itself is not necessarily carbon-rich or the
product of misplaced values, but the power to purchase it, that is for an
individual have at his or her disposal such a fund which is applied to such a
frivolous purpose, has undoubtedly been assembled through the exploitation of
carbon-intensive goods.
The Professor of International Politics at University of Western Australia, Mark Beeson, writes in The
Conversation, about the complications for the world in the sale and purchase
of the Picasso painting.
Read his story - “The art market: Not a pretty picture”.
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