England’s Tate Museum Network Declared a Climate Emergency. What Are the Benefits—and the Costs—of Sustainability?

Last spring, a woman clad in a coat of living grass rode a white horse into Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall at the head of a procession of artists and activists demanding that cultural organizations declare a climate emergency. In the wake of school strikes and traffic stoppages across London by protesters incited by the environmental group Extinction Rebellion, the theatrical action marked one of many mounting high points for a cause gathering momentum in the cultural sphere.
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