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motivates action. 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. tassie is a melting and so. levels 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 sanct 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 where 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 change 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 barber sticker or a t. shirt nobody you know raise the fist of 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 rainforests 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 these are one example and the disturbing promise of the bestselling novel the history of beasts by no region right at my end. 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 finisher. earlier we understand on my. objective life that we should change the way we live because. hard wired to meet needs it but now we start to understand more

deeply and i think it will scream be it way to get that understanding at least that's what it reduced scout me. with nature as we know that some day exists only in novels and memorise the warning signs of multiplying and evermore anomic. one recent study predicted that rising sea levels could inundate vast coastal regions of the islands in the mediterranean and. written his face which translates as wild weather is a science based book written for the navy by physicist and climate research it feels like a auto she compares 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 it 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 just as 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. 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 who are getting active the world over they're demanding

action from the politicians now there's attunements appeals to the powerful have made waves even in the book trade the messages get involved. in germany publishing houses are also getting involved and thinking about sustainability. some of done away with plastic packaging. the hot button publishing group has resolved to reduce that c into footprint. and the opposite and it was this just pop you are far the greatest problem is the paper still producing it consumes lots of energy and that makes up 70 percent of our carbon footprint and also another big part comes from transporting the paper and books 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 tires and dollars we can meet up by. the company is leading the way for the

industry and taking a big step towards greater environmental responsibility. one small a publisher meanwhile has gone completely climbing the truck with notebooks made of grass paper but fully compatible. it's it's climate change has arrived in the world of books and publishing. books that ask yourself goddess eloquent photographs also tell of the destruction being raked upon our world and the suffering of humankind he is the recipient of this year's peace prize of the german book 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. in

with a series of powerful photographs. those pictures are now on display at the photograph his community i'm in stockholm. green violence hardship. these stark black and white images were taken in 1986 sagar as photographs won him world wide recognition and confirmed his uncompromising passion for this art form. to be a football the 1st finger to be a tough go of it but some can be a foot off your muscles have a play for the big blue for the photograph to be there. to walk with the light walk or the planners of the composition photography is a stethoscope quite depressed that will run out in you 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. they spin you put 5 days in they me with this because i sleep with that i eat with 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 pictures. there was a lot of drinking and violence at the mine police were often called to the scene. and the police where i was just the present but the form of the state if you look at the walker is holding become aloft the rifle but the poorest man has

a gun in the other hand we've the finger prepared to shot that we walk here will not happen. this is a pit but sometimes the fire in some week you. saw that his career was the subject of a 24000 film that was co-directed by his son. so i 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 photography and became a freelancer his work was shaped by the poverty and violence he'd seen in his youth if it were a photographer from sweden. i had another view of the plan that was that they 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 course of what is i'm sure on the side my side of the war. so ghetto 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 at a national park in zambia. for his latest projects i'm going to return to brazil to cover the devastation of the amazon rainforest since the 1960 s. nearly 20 percent of the forest has been destroyed so i gotto says president bush you know has done nothing to stop the forestation here's the thing such as facts. he's allowed for war it destroyed for us now because of the international pressure he's saying that this for a 2nd for just not the true. star gotto and his wife lydia continue to use their photographs to call attention to the exploitation of people and our planet. but he has no desire to get involved in politics he lets

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

creativity plus the 3. how will artificial intelligence affect the future of literature and culture. holger volunteer feels comfortable in both worlds moment as an author himself and the founder of the arts plus bestival of digital culture and he's been studying the creative power of machines. the one caught you just take off if you must where featuring artificial intelligence here at the book fair because it could play an important role in publishing for example in marketing it's 12 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 meaning one dog who was born in india and now lives in new york.

and who was born in the us and now lives in vienna and berlin and both writers are fascinated with the possibilities that. this is. fantastic. and i think it's a really interesting subject. and it dates back to frankenstein. and i somehow manages to combine all these different topics and fantasies. in her latest book lie ofili cotton portrays a wide variety of futuristic fantasies including time travel and parallel universes where thoughts become a reality a world of cyborgs 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 and. if you. 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 would poetry generated by a narrow network look like. when your math 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 person. where is the poetry coming from then why does that make sense if a machine has written a woman and you still get feelings from mant then where where is the soul that's creating that. there is need was 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 a 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 slaves and black 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 soul. was born in kolkata into the so-called untouchable cost which has suffered discrimination for centuries meaning 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 like there's a possibility of being able to reason for itself there's a large question all thrilled that y. is still dreaming i'm 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 age in which people have simply become superfluous. apostolos with some to discard. 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 valan doesn't think much of such apocalyptic visions. problems increased but this argument is 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. artificial intelligence is really good at comparing various kinds of data but not agreeing are just some are. and are it's plus the new york media theatre company 3 legged dog

shows with such a dystopian future might look like. people stranded in an underground complex subject to. 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 frankfurt 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 and bargain for along

the prison like rain the 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 all writes about every day ordinary experiencers and about his home city. the music scene is very good to literature it seems very good because of this just feeling of despair and being enclosed in the tween southern mold. and i like i really like the people. and the mentality i like the language the way they speak very very true and harsh and very very very annoying and very insulting very arrogant i love that. but there's another mentality he doesn't like for centuries bergen was a busy port and trade affluence to the city. this dylan was of all money and and

that's but i'll say these families are narrow minded conservative and obsessed with their wealth. so i'll just say that with all. old trader's all these old families and to hospitals to take over the firm and you're supposed to and then you have this homosexual son will disappear to stick door 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 am usually teeming with visitors many of whom arrive on huge cruise ships. to see the changelog the shops chaves into stupidity that's the biggest problem the biggest repeated. what was that he said about bergen as being insulting and there's also another burden a city that's proud of its arts and culture such as the national stage there's

a henrik ibsen was writer in residence and art director. the coda are easy m's 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 car over glasgow was one of the school's 1st students and 1988 and thomas s. but all was his teacher suddenly you have this situation where there are a pretty good writers living here at the same office as you so we were challenging in the sort of what can we do away with what can we do radically in that i would do something radical with the show the surface i would do it even more radical than that and it was a sort of competition. it gave rise to

a highly also biographical and subjective style that's deeply personal steeped in one's eyes and self-doubt and minute plea detailed and completely. knows the privacy office. of the last communist socialist country in in the north in europe to which the swedish prime minister said is true because there was a still 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 the he or she thinks he or she is who do you think you are. a free man who speaks his mind thomas s. but i would no doubt. these days because god lives in sweden but the cafe operetta

where he used to meet up with a budding writer this is still a fashionable hangout for the powers handing bags full organize his regular readings here tonight he's presenting an anthology of work by 12 local poets. down not. only don't 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 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 no regions are in 2 minds about the exploitation of oil reserves. we know that we live from this for so. fewer which is bad for the whole globe and this or that or my choice of this living from this. growing up. surviving on this money i think a lot of the writers on the earth this deal with this are mine if they get state funding they don't at the state funding is oil money so are they gonna hold again erected us. literature doesn't necessarily have the answer. we all know that the good times around that says thomas has put off his advice enjoy life while you can . have enjoyed it's not you stupid i mean write those it's not the all job to take part in this. celebration.

that was our arts $21.00 special from the frankfurt book fair all you bookworms out there visit argue tube channel or books see you next time.

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