Purple Magazine
— The Cosmos Issue #32 F/W 2019

eleven years

sustainability TIM BLANKS ELEVEN YEARS Eleven years left before the damage from climate change is irreversible: the General Assembly of the United Nations heard that message in March this year. Remember when you were a kid kicking off about something, and your parents tried to soothe you: “Calm down, it’s not the end of the world.” And of course it wasn’t. Except now it is — or, at least, the beginning of the end. Show business teaches us that when people interfere with the natural order, they make monsters, from Dr. Frankenstein to Godzilla, which are awakened by everything from nuclear fission to exposure to Something Gone Wrong In The Lab. Night of the Living Dead. The Hills Have Eyes. The Blood on Satan’s Claw. Stop Me Before I Kill! You can’t play God without a punishing payback. And yet, weirdly, we worship the monsters. Is this secular faith run…

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