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taking place against a background of global political and social upheaval this year's frankfurt book fair is reacting to pressing issues such as digital transformation and climate change and the challenges they bring. more and more activists and writers are concerned with the health of our planet. and their books are being snapped up by concerned readers. the world is off balance with extreme storms and flooding on one hand and widespread drunks on the other. classrooms are melting and see live. bills rising

is catastrophic global climate change upon us no one is going to destroy the world except for us and nobody is going to save the world except for us putting aside natural fluctuations humans are responsible for 100 percent of the global warming. can the world still be saved is a question that a growing number of writers are asking themselves along with the new genre climate fight climate fiction the topic also looms large in the field of nonfiction near the weather is the latest book by bestselling author jonathan safran foer he believes that saving the planet begins at breakfast. it's time we changed the way we eat. it doesn't always look or feel big often looks and feels quite modest. i'm going to have oatmeal or so i know in my coffee instead of cow's milk all right that doesn't work well on a bumper sticker or a t. shirt nobody you know raise the fist to the sky and says oh. but if we all did it

if we all made changes just like that. we would save the planet. every state q.e. takes a toll on the environment scientists say cattle farming and extensive agriculture cause about one 3rd of total emissions. burning the rain forests the planet's green lungs and fossil fuels also does its part to heat the planet. many plant and animal species are heading for extinction bees are one example and the disturbing promise of the bestselling novel the history of bees by no region right at my end and. the 3rd installment in the climate quartet has just been published in german translation. it deals with the survival of a rare breed of course and humankind responsibility for nature. oh yeah we understand on my. objective level that we should change the way we live because. why did we need serious but now we start to understand more deeply

and i think it novel scruby it way to get that understanding at least that's what the readers tell me. will nature as we know it some day exist only in novels and memorise the warning signs a multiplying and evermore anomaly one recent study predicted that rising sea levels could inundate vast coastal regions of the islands in the mediterranean. route into space which translates as wild weather is a science based book written for the name by physicist and climate research at friedrich auto she can pass and contrasts weather events of today with data from pre-industrial times that amounts to proof of manmade climate change is able to tighten but one that is to show how what we scientists are doing is different from what us president trump is doing by the facts we found are different from these

alternative facts. i think it's important to understand that so we can keep actual facts separate from alternative facts. on the. climate questions have never before been so prominent at the book for revenues for nonfiction books in german on the topic rose 10 percent this year. the demand for information seems endless. the book fair is responding with panel discussions on the relationship between humankind and nature. the climate crisis is definitely helping shift books. it's catastrophe sells when it's your catastrophe it sells even better right but one of the things we're seeing that is the nicer side of that and perhaps the most hopeful side is that we're starting to come together around the climate crisis in a world that is very politically torn to pieces we're finding the new enemy. but it's mainly. younger people are getting active the world over they're demanding

action from the politicians now there's a 2 mercs appeals to the powerful have made waves even in a book trade messages get involved. in germany publishing houses up also getting involved and thinking about sustainability. some have done away with plastic packaging. the whole to playing publishing group has resolved to reduce it see into footprint . and ops that it was just as popular far the greatest problem as the paper still producing it consumes lots of energy and that makes up 70 percent of our carbon footprint and another big part comes from transporting the paper and books and for together that amounts to another 20 percent and we also consider the c o 2 output of our business trips and our employees commutes to and from work have ties and. the company is leading the way for the industry and taking

a big step towards greater environmental responsibility. one smaller publisher meanwhile has gone completely climate you truck with notebooks made of grass paper that's fully compatible. it's exactly that change has arrived in the world of books and publishing. is that ask yourself eloquent photographs also tell of the destruction being wreaked upon our world and the suffering of humankind he is the recipient of this year's peace prize of the german duck trade. during the 1980 s. there was a gold rush in brazil more than 50000 young men worked at the sarah palin mine. the working and living conditions were appalling. gado documented the situation. it's

a series of powerful photographs. those pictures are now on display at the photograph his community i'm in stockholm. greeted with violence hardship. these stark black and white images were taken in 1906 so i got those photographs won him world wide recognition and confirmed his uncompromising passion for this art form what ought to be a football the 1st finger must be a tough go of it but some can be a foot off you must have a play for the big players with the photograph to be there. to walk with the light walk or the plans or to composition photography is a stair to go through that quite depressed that in the must have these.

gardens photos are so well composed that they almost seem staged some critics accused him of glorifying human suffering but he says he simply pro-trade the situation as it was. the photographs capture a fraction of a 2nd in time but it took him weeks to prepare for the shots. to spin you put 5 days in a big weave this big i sleep with that i eat the it it became part of then that means they were there for the wanted to be even with this guy in that allowed me to do a series of because. there was a lot of drinking and violence at the mine police were often called to the scene. the police were was just the present but the form of the state if you look at the

walker is holding the colonel off the rifle but the paulus man has a gun in the other hand we've to finger prepared to push up the walk here will not happen. this is a pit but sometimes the fire if something big q. sundowners career was the subject of a 24000 film that was co-directed by his son. so got a grew up on a ranch in southern brazil later he earned a master's degree in economics. in 1969 he was exiled by brazil's military dictatorship. salgado and his wife fled to france he taught himself a tiger free and became a freelancer his work was shaved by the poverty and violence he'd seen in his youth if it were a photographer from sweden one german approach. i had another view of the planet was that we were looking from here to solve for the

planet for the poor but i bought a number of flu when i showed you pictures like this one. it's not to provoke a conflict in the courts here for what it is i'm sure on the side my side. so go chronicled the plight of migrants in a book of photographs called exodus. he took pictures of the civil war in rwanda and was one of the 1st to bring the conflict to the world's attention. later sagal combined photographs of landscapes wildlife and people who were living in ancestral communities into a project called genesis. so those photographs are known for their compositional beauty and integrity.

this one was taken after a few a national park in zambia. for his latest project some go to return to brazil to cover the devastation of the zone rainforest since the 1960 s. nearly 20 percent of the forest has been destroyed sagar says presidential your boss you know has done nothing to stop the forestation here's the thing satisfaction for the next he's allowed for it destroyed for us now because of the international pressure he's saying that this for a 2nd for it's not the true. so i gotto and his wife lamia continue to use their photographs to call attention to the exploitation of people and our planet. yes i know but he has no desire to get involved in politics again lets

his photograph speak for him. on the. i'm not. off in the political. but. i think my life inside the way this story in my picture was a little bit off as well. denise is just my way off life. sebastiano saw that it was the 1st photographer to win the peace prize of the german publishers association in honor of his life's work. the digital advances are also creating a people as well as exciting opportunities which are leaving their mark on literature to. the arts plus festival at the frankfurt book fair explores the future of culture

and creativity. he read. how will artificial intelligence affect the future of literature and culture. hoga volunteer feels comfortable in both worlds moment as an author himself and the founder of the arts plus that's developed digital culture and he's been studying the creative power of machines. you were caught you guessing off a few comments where featuring artificial intelligence here at the book fair because it could play an important role in publishing for example in marketing want it but it will take a few years before artificial intelligence will be able to write a quality novel sure it will help us. now will travel from the frankfurt book fair to the few turia berlin's newly opened house of futures we're meeting 2 authors mini mondale who was born in india and now lives in new york.

and can cause who was born in the us and now lives in vienna and berlin and both writers are fascinated. with the possibilities that i offers. from justice. i think it's a really interesting subject. as it dates back to frankenstein. ai somehow manages to combine all these different topics and fantasies. in her latest book lyall feel cotton portrays a wide variety of futuristic fantasies including time travel and parallel universes where thoughts become a reality a world of cyborg where human beings are not the measure of all things. i see a number of different reality options and that includes intelligence that we can't possibly imagine. if you turion exhibition makes the unimaginable

a bit more understandable what sort of art will machines be able to create will they just reproduce the original material that's been fed into them what with poetry generated by a neuronal network look like. the neural nets can write poetry and the thing is because poetry is already a little abstract off so the neural net sporty often reads like a real course and. where is the poetry coming from and why does that make sense if a machine has written a woman and you still get feelings from it then where where is the soul that's creating that. there is need to is a serious challenge to our concept of human creative genius can machines really express the same sentiments as those that are found in the soul of the human artist or has that concept become outdated. what is

a soul it is a very politically loaded question because it's one of the things that the colonizers the christians once and used against people. and people of other communities saying that it's ok to treat these people like animals because they don't have a soul like only the christian has a soap. meaning one doll was born in kolkata into the so-called untouchable cost which has suffered discrimination for centuries i mean he believes that ai could provide people with an opportunity to fight injustice and make the world a better place. there's discrimination in big data which like changes their responses to certain people as opposed to other people and now that there's a possibility of being able to reason for itself there's a large question all through that while still dreaming and already not one of the most privileged people in the world so i am not one of the people who will lose power if there's a different world order maybe it's the conservatives who should be who aren't. and

cotton goes a step further she envisions supposed to minister aging which people have simply become superfluous. pasta with some for. the most humanism is an interesting concept i enjoy playing around with the idea of having a world that gets along just fine without human beings just life will go on without them that may be my favorite fantasy. of course in a world like that and cotton herself would become redundant hold of all in doesn't think much of such apocalyptic visions. problems like martian and christmas are given it's kind of mean why should machines create art when there are no people around to appreciate it besides i think it's a terrible idea and it's not going to happen anytime soon. the artificial intelligence is really good it can occur and various kinds of data but not agreeing are just so much. at arts plus the new york media theater company 3

legged dog shows what such a dystopian future might look like. people stranded in an underground comp. subjected to the whims of artificial intelligence but even this vision was created by human imagination. time now to head to norway this year's guest of honor at the frank 1st book fair we visit bergen the wettest city in europe to see how the country inspires its writers . it's raining enberg and. it usually is but the bleak weather makes for a 1st child literary scene and overcast skies creativity is flourishing. many leave the city and move away. many don't manage to live in bergen for long the

prison like rain or damp confinement between the hills makes you sick and weary of life you're forced to live behind closed doors alone or in small families. thomas s. but i'll write about every day ordinary experiencers and about his home city. the music scene is very good literature it seems very good because it is just feeling of despair and being enclosed in the tween southern mold and he and i like i really like the people. and the mentality i like the language the way they speak very very cruel and harsh and very very very annoying and very insulting and very arrogant i love that. but there's another mentality he doesn't like for centuries back and was a busy poor and trade affluence to the city. just

a lot of old money in baghdad and aspinall says these families are narrow minded conservative and obsessed with their wealth. so much of. i'm sitting with all these old traders all these old families in the last post take over the firm and you're supposed to and then you have this homosexual son will disappear to stick top to destroys everything i like to. anyone who can afford it lives in the hills away from the picturesque historic city center ins co world heritage site it's now a popular tourist attraction i mean usually teeming with visitors many of whom arrive on huge cruise ships. to see the change a lot of the shops chaves into stupidity that's the biggest problem though you stupid. what was that he said about bergen as being insulting and there's also another burton a city that's proud of its arts and culture such as the national stage there's

a well henrik ibsen was writer in residence and art director. of the coda at museums currently hosting an exhibition of work by edward monk. the university and its libraries. and literature house complete with an impressive bookstore. and of course its writing academy where young authors from across the country come to hone their craft. world famous writer caught over can ask up was one of the school's 1st students and 988 and thomas s. but all was his teacher and suddenly you have this situation would with good writers living at the same moment as as you so we were challenging in the charter what can we do away with what could be radical in that i would do something radical with literature and i would do it even more radical than that and the sort of

competition. gave rise to a highly autobiographical and subjective style that's deeply personal steeped in one's eyes and self-doubt and my neatly detailed. and completely ignores the privacy office. the last communist socialist country in indonesia not in europe it was the swedish prime minister who said it is true because there was a shill social democratic colleagues who way of thinking so you are supposed to take care of your neighbor to be a part of the collective you shouldn't say. so there was no in the church except the hopes of the police to great exceptional everything and we discovered that. and it was that they would say who he or she thinks he or she is who think you are. a free man who speaks his mind thomas s.p.l.

would no doubt. these days class god lives in sweden but the cafe operator where he used to meet up with a budding writers is still a fashionable hangout how is having bags fall organizes regular readings here tonight he's presenting an anthology of work by 12 local poets. down. on only you know we have to do something i mean it rains all the time there's $300.00 days of rain a year so you have to do something we have to we have to sort of. that starts or a solution i guess towards depression. going crazy and we we we have to. be creative to say i want. to survive in a country whose people have a pretty good standard of living thanks to the oil that's been flowing from norway's offshore oil fields for almost 50 years. even future generations will benefit you so why is government investment in the profits yet many know regions

are in 2 minds about the exploitation of oil reserves. we know that we live. from this for so. few which is bad for the whole globe on this or my my choice of this living from this. growing up. surviving on this morning i think a lot of the writers in north this deal with this remark if they get state funding they don't at the state funding is oil money so are they going. to going to wreck to dust. doesn't necessarily have the answer. we all know that the good times are over says thomas s. but off his advice enjoy night while you can. have enjoyed if not you stupid i mean right those it's not all job to take part in

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