Friday 26 July: One hectare
Extinction Symbol crop circle appears at WOMAD festival
July
26, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion
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300 foot diameter Extinction Symbol
crop circle appears at WOMAD festival on Friday morning
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Aerial photographs show the sheer size of the crop circle, which
draws attention to food security issues, within the context of Climate
and Ecological Collapse
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It marks a collaboration between
Extinction Rebellion, WOMAD and art collective The Circlemakers
Extinction Rebellion has revealed a 300 foot diameter
Extinction Symbol crop circle in a field adjacent to WOMAD festival.
Striking aerial photographs show the sheer size of the crop circle,
the largest representation of the Extinction Symbol ever made.
The WOMAD crop circle symbolises ecocide and climate
chaos while drawing particular attention to food security issues. The
flattened plants send the message that climate chaos ravages our crops,
leaving people hungry and desperate, a tragedy only set to worsen.
Extinction Rebellion Festivals Coordinator Julian
Thompson says: “The Extinction Symbol crop circle draws our
attention to ecocide, the loss of 75% of insects and catastrophic loss
of biodiversity; the overuse of herbicide and pesticide and the havoc
climate chaos wreaks on our capacity to grow food. People are already
going hungry around the world, even here in the UK, and yet the amount
of perfectly good food thrown away every day by our supermarkets is
astounding. In the Midwest of the USA, 16 million acres won’t grow wheat
this year, due to flooding. This is the reality of our current systems
and the Climate and Ecological Crisis we are in. The coming years will
see truly cataclysmic changes to our capacity to grow food and that is
when we are genuinely looking at societal collapse.”
The WOMAD crop circle follows the creation of the
largest ever human Extinction Symbol at Glastonbury festival earlier
this Summer. It was the work of art collective The Circlemakers, who
released the following statement:
“Much of our work is inspired by the ancient
sacred sites of Britain and the world – we come together, we work as a
team – as they did in the past. No one of us could create what we do
entirely on our own. Extinction Rebellion is about making positive
change by working together. The Extinction Symbol lends itself perfectly
to land art. It is the peace sign of our times. The symbol which is free
to use by all (in a non commercial way) signifies the threat of
extinction. The circle represents planet Earth and the hourglass within
is a warning to us, that time is running out. We are in a Climate and
Ecological Emergency. In the making of this crop circle – the largest
Extinction Symbol ever made – we were conscious of the huge risk to our
fragile planet. The time to act is now.”
Source:-
rebellion.earth |
