Will Demand For Eco-friendly Goods Mean A Decline In Artisnal Skills ?
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In 1851, american writer Herman Melville wrote a novel that was then slammed as an apogee of american romanticism. A hundred and fifty years, later, Moby Dick, the novel in question, appears wonderfully prescient. Now regarded as the greatest amercian novel, Moby Dick is about the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby Dick, a white sperm whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Ahab intends to take revenge. The novel is also a parable about where obsession takes us. Melville wrote Moby Dick when the industrial civilisation was still incipient. But much of the novel's lessons ring true today, with climate threatening us.
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| Odissi paintings |
It is well known that addressing the problem of climate change requires lifestyle changes. Some solutions might be difficult but others are not so. Consider handicrafts for example. A range of jute products - hand bags , files, office bags, table cloth and decorative wall hangings- can replace many utility and decorative pieces produced in factories. Utility and decorative items made by skilled artisans using bamboos, different king of grass and leaves are equally graceful and artistic.
Most states of India have hundreds of such biodegradable handicraft items. The classic Odissi paintings from orissa , the delicate wood work of Chhatisgarh, the bamboo products from the northeast, the fine meatl work from Tamil Nadu.
Mass production averages the design to level where idiosyncrasies disappear and it is tough to innovate
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