![]() ![]() “Where are the books? The poems? The plays? The goddamn operas?” he wrote in an op-ed for Grist. ![]() Just a year earlier, the environmentalist Bill McKibben had railed against the culture’s perceived indifference. But the science suggesting that industrial societies have thrown climatic rhythms wildly out of whack had been around for decades. The term was just getting mainstream traction - this was the year Al Gore released “An Inconvenient Truth” and Vanity Fair launched its first Green issue. His colleagues noticed (“It was,” he conceded, “kind of ugly and noticeable”), but only a few of them knew it referred to a cause. NOT LONG AFTER he joined the Princeton University Art Museum in 2006, the curator Karl Kusserow wore a bracelet bearing the phrase “Stop global warming” to a staff meeting.
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