ABSTRACT
This chapter touches upon the role of feminism in social movements and climate change, the manipulation-machinery of the media industry, melting glaciers as indicators of global warming, and the part that artists in the field of photography and new media can play in these changes. Earth, air, water, and fire. The four essential elements that were once believed to make up the entire universe are also still the basis of our economic principles: digging, burning, melting, evaporating, in order to fill the pockets of the 1% with money, at the expense of the planet and those other 99% of us who inhabit it, those who have no ambition or possibility to leave. The Spanish artist Xavier Ribas and a team of researchers from the University of Brighton have investigated the photographic registry documenting the process of sodium nitrate extraction in the Atacama Desert between the decades of 1870 and 1920.
