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    We’ve toured the world for years. To help save the planet we’ll have to change | Massive Attack

    The music industry has had a big carbon impact. As a band working with climate experts, we’re going to try to minimise ours• This article was written by musician Robert Del Naja on behalf of Massive Attack
    by Massive Attack Nov 28, 2019 3 minutes
    Robert Del Naja performs with Massive Attack: “Like many bands, we’ve paid to have trees planted, and more recently prohibited the use of single-use plastics, and travelled by train wherever feasible.’ Photograph: Babycakes Romero

    The imprinting of climate emergency into the public consciousness, achieved by the school strikes and mass activist arrests, seems to have generated more introspection than positive action. The debate around personal sacrifice, hypocrisy and lifestyle change is playing at high volume and, as recently highlighted by the climate expert Michael Mann, this presents a danger that popular demand for catastrophe-avoiding systemic change could get lost in the mix.

    This debate is just as alive (and equally confused) that factors such as audience transportation and venue power account for as much as 93% of all the CO2 emissions generated by major music events.

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