Biodiversity and the Arts

Three things it is difficult to imagine

1. The world and everything in it
2. How things go together
3. That things end 

How might art, and what people feel, be connected, in a meaningful way, to the questions posed by biodiversity? It can be argued that the two things meet through the imagination, and the limits of our imaginations. Biodiversity is threatened. We are living through, in our current Holocene epoch, a major period of mass extinction. It is clear that human activity is responsible for much of this process, making the current epoch different from those that came before in that some power rests in human hands to influence or address the situation. While all of this, and the urgency of the need to push back against this wave of extinction is well known, the wave, helped more than hindered by human activity, moves inexorably forward. Yet perhaps an aspect of the problem involves the possibility that while being known, we still largely fail to understand it.

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