Artistic projects

by Selina Morscheid & Marie Lorenz

Knowledge can be conveyed through music—on a factual level but also on an emotional level. That's why I wrote the song ‘Let's retell the story...’. It addresses the downside of ‘green innovation’ and raises questions of global justice. While the North is improving its carbon footprint with e-mobility, countries in the South are bearing the ecological and social costs. The song focuses on the Atacama desert in Chile, which contains a large part of the world's lithium reserves. Lithium mining, which is needed for electric car batteries, leads to water shortages, environmental destruction, and cultural loss. With poetic images and critical questions, the lyrics argue that e-mobility can only be a path to true climate justice if it is not based on colonial structures such as unequal power relations but rather on fair participation of the local population, less consumption, and global solidarity.