ECO BLIND SPOT?
A subtle but disturbing thread wound its way through a number of articles in Resurgence 255. It relates to something of a ‘blind spot’ which otherwise deeply committed and self-aware activists appear to have developed to their own carbon footprints, particularly through flying.
First, we had Mark Kidel’s ‘Music and Place’ article in which no critical eyelid was batted at the fact that “the world music cognoscenti are…travelling to Far-Eastern Siberia, Rajasthan, Borneo or the Sahara to attend events that are more or less traditional although tourist-oriented”. Gail ...
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