LONDON (Reuters) — A ship full of poets, video artists, painters, photographers and composers will set sail for the Arctic next week in a bid to get British schoolchildren interested in issues like global warming.
The artists, accompanied by scientists, will sail 200 miles (320 km) in a 93-year-old schooner, the Noorderlicht, from northern Norway to Spitsbergen in the Arctic.
As well as carrying out scientific experiments, the crew will take photographs, paint pictures and write about their experiences in one of the most inhospitable places on earth.
They plan to use their material to make a multi-media educational pack to be used in schools in Britain.
One of the crew members, film producer Colin Izod, told a news conference that a lot of educational material currently available to children is produced by “money-grubbing businessman flogging stuff to schools because they see a market there.”
Of course he’s a self-righteous penguin-hugging lefty flogging stuff to schools because it makes him feel better. Whew! It’s way too early in the morning to be so nasty! God, forgive me!