NO PLANET NO FUN

This is a quandary WEPRESENT put to "NO PLANET NO FUN", a collective of 45 artists creating refreshingly positive, upbeat work for an exhibition designed to highlight the effects of climate change. Choosing to communicate the dangers of climate change using positivity rather than harrowing videos of icebergs breaking, cities flooding/burning and polar bears dying, they’re still ultimately spreading a message of doom; but in a different way that might just get through to people. 

Here’s what No Planet No Fun think Earth is worth saving for.

Agata Królak

I think the best thing about our planet is the views, especially the breathtaking mountain views. The mountains, man… there’s something magical and mystical and overwhelming and heartwarming about staring at them. They’re almost the oldest “beings” on the planet. It’s like staring straight at your soul. Looking at them is like longing and loving at the same time. It gives me butterflies in my stomach and sends chills down my spine just thinking about it.

Olga Capdevila

There are things on our planet that are completely unique and memorable, beautiful and unrepeatable. One of the things I like the best is spending hours “investigating” (I say investigate but it’s just me with a basic snorkelling kit) the seabed, discovering unknown fish and animals and plants and then returning to land to quickly draw everything in my notebook. After the summer, I end up having two kinds of memories: the one I lived through using my eyes and the one I can revisit through the pages of the notebook.

Elisa Munsó

I've become a mother recently, so for me it’s the creation of a human or animal: the idea of new life. I think it's the most simultaneously brutal and beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. How creation can be something so small and perfect. How new life can come out of oneself.

Charlotte Dumontier

Plants! I already miss them as I live in Antwerp and it’s not very green. I really noticed the difference when I was visiting Amsterdam recently; the people there have lots of potted plants clumped together in front of their houses. They have more parks and a big botanical garden with a steamy greenhouse. I love all of the weird plants in there, from the fluffy little cacti to the spiky, two meter-high gunnera that resembles prehistoric rhubarb. My uncle planted one in his garden and we really believed that it ate little children. Where I live now, we don't have enough room for a gunnera, sadly. But we have spurge plants with exploding seeds, that's nice too.

George(s)

I mean, who even likes nature anyway? Yes, some places on earth are beautiful, but if you take a closer look it’s nothing more than a bunch of mute plants and stupid animals. Have you ever seen a pony taking a selfie?! As far as I can see, it wasn’t cats and dogs who created the nuclear bomb.

If you ask me, it seems that the main reason why fish complain so much about all the plastic bottles in the ocean is because they’re all empty, so they have no choice but to stick with their disgusting, salty water.

The greatest thing about planet Earth is humankind, for sure. We’re friendly to each other, generous with the planet that birthed us and, more than anything, we are the only ones actually able to deeply modify our environment.