.Breakingviews: This Brooklyn artist is looking to galvanize attention to the perils of global warming by pitching a 1,000-foot oil supertanker on one end via rob1cox
PARIS - Imagine an oil supertanker. Not where it’s usually visible, on the watery horizons of the world’s great harbor cities, but instead standing up vertically from the sea. The longest of these would reach some 1,000 feet into the sky – higher than the Eiffel Tower and nearly level with the Empire State Building. It would be unmissable.
“Global warming is so real and yet super difficult for people to get their heads around, so we thought of ways to picture it”, Yellin told me recently while giving a tour of his Red Hook studio. After Superstorm Sandy inundated the neighborhood with five feet of water in 2012, “I was watching boats sail by Lady Liberty and I imagined myself just picking one up with my little finger and turning it upright. Not only would you have this incredible sculpture, it would amplify the urgency.
If the project helps galvanize attention to the perils of global warming, the payoff would certainly dwarf the cost of inaction. There is a better than 50% chance that unchecked climate change would result in a 20% cut to global output by the end of this century, notes David Wallace-Wells in “The Uninhabitable Earth”, a book that Yellin exhorted the attendees of Pioneer Works’ recent fundraiser to read.
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