Energy Secretary Rick Perry says moving from fossil fuels to renewables is ‘immoral’

Energy Secretary Rick Perry said on Wednesday that it was “immoral” to help poor nations shift off of fossil fuels.

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry believes it is
 'immoral' to help poor nations shift off fossil fuels.

“Look those people in the eyes that are starving and tell them you can’t have electricity,” said Perry in remarks after his big speech to the oil and gas industry at the annual CERAWeek energy conference in Houston. “Because as a society we decided fossil fuels were bad. I think that is immoral.”

Read the ThinkProgress story by Joe Romm - “Energy Secretary Rick Perry says moving from fossil fuels to renewables is ‘immoral’.”

Can art put us in touch with our feelings about climate change?

What does climate change look like in Australia? Are we already seeing our landscapes shift before our eyes without even realising it?

James Gleeson’s Delenda est Carthago offers
 a striking visualisation of a collapsing civilisation.

Perhaps thought-provoking art can help us come to terms with our changing world, by finding new ways to engage, inform and hopefully inspire action. For hasn’t art always been the bridge between the head and the heart?

With that aim, the ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017 festival, organised by CLIMARTE, features 30 specially curated exhibitions running from April 19 to May 14 in galleries across Melbourne and regional Victoria, following on from their previous award-winning festival in 2015.

Read the piece on The Conversation - “Can art put us in touch with our feelings about climate change?”