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My artistic exploration of sustainability versus growth | Ellie Harrison | TEDxSouthampton

Scottish-based artist Ellie Harrison explains how reflecting on the dangers of climate change and our unsustainable lifestyles led her to undertake a series of provocative, surreal, and at times very funny art works and social actions. Ellie Harrison is an artist and activist based in Glasgow. She is the founder and co-ordinator of the national Bring Back British Rail campaign. For the last few years she has been wrestling with the inherent contradiction between the continual and infinite ‘growth’ demanded by capitalism and the ‘sustainability’ necessary to prevent climate change. In 2010, she became the first individual artist to publish an Environmental Policy on her website. After breaching its transportation section ‘for love or money’ on several occasions, in 2016 she took the extreme step of not travelling in any vehicles (other than her bike) for a whole year, as part of her ‘controversial’ project The Glasgow Effect. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx