Balance–Unbalance: Transforming Paradigms (Art ↔ Environment)

The equilibrium between a healthy environment, the energy our society needs to maintain or improve this lifestyle, and the world's interconnected economies, could pass more quickly than expected from the current complex balance to an entirely new reality where human beings would need to be more creative than ever before to survive. The frequency and severity that certain weather and climate-related events are having around us is increasing, and the ability of human beings to modify our adjacent surroundings has turned into a power capable of altering the planet. Do the media arts have a role in all this?