"If you want to mobilise and create a civic movement and all of that, that's not what you say. But this is me being honest: it is not looking good. It is looking not just bad, it is looking horrible."
"It's not going to bring you anywhere, to bloody hope for anything."
"A lot of people are doing a lot of great things: find them and follow them and do what they do. That's what I'm trying to do."
Olafur Eliasson created the photographic glacier melt series 1999/2019 showing 30 pairs of Icelandic glaciers photographed twenty years apart to reveal the impact of global heating. He described COP30 as a "catastrophic non-impressive result", said he felt "terrified", and stated he was "past the point of hope", invoking Desmond Tutu's phrase "a prisoner of hope". He argues that action matters more than passive expectation, urging people to find and follow those doing substantive work. His studio contains Johan Rockström's sustainability research, and his artworks often address the viewer directly with titles using "you".
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