单选题   Para. 1 ①In 1975, photographer Michel Comte stood up before scientists, business leaders and politicians at the Club of Rome to deliver a speech about the climate disaster he believed was on the horizon. ②Back then, he was still a student, and a little nervous—but he could sense the future. ③Now, Comte's recent works incorporating black carbon fallout from the jet stream, shown in Rome and Milan, prove just how right he was to speak out.
    Para. 2 ①Comte's message was echoed last week in the UK, when thousands of schoolchildren—inspired by 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg—took to the streets to pressure the government into taking action on climate change. ②Like Comte, they have seen a bleak future ahead and are speaking out.
    Para. 3 ①Sadly, that hasn't been the case for most artistic and cultural institutions, which have spent the last few decades responding to climate change with little more than silence. ②They have been dangerously complicit in desensitizing society to what's really at stake.
    Para. 4 ①But there is hope in the air. ②Tate Modem have an Olafur Eliasson retrospective scheduled for this summer—his Ice Watch project was recently invited to melt away outside the museum. ③As for Comte, he is about to board a sailing boat for a challenging passage to the Arctic, creating a monumental multimedia art installation calling for us to change our ways before it's too late. ④If we allow more artists such as these to become part of the conversation, we will have a culture fit for the generation of children who took to our streets.
    Para. 5 ①When artist Yi Dai opened her first solo show in Berlin, she received rapturous reviews praising her subtle and intelligent coverage of environmental topics. ②Misfits, Offcuts and Castaways, was an urgent statement reflecting on the aftereffects of nuclear fallout and rising sea temperatures, and the fragility of our ecosystem. ③Her exhibition was as much a personal account of her experience on the Marshall Islands as it was a call to action following the then-warmest winter in recorded history.
    Para. 6 ①Tales of Change brings together stories of how climate change is impacting communities in some of the planet's most iconic mountain ranges. ②Its protagonist, Florian Reber, cycled across the Alps, starting in Trieste on the Adriatic coast and arriving in Cannes, at the Mediterranean Sea. ③Along the way, he talked with farmers, foresters, conservationists, tourism experts, alpinists and professional athletes, psychologists, writers and journalists about climate change. ④Periods of tumultuous weather extremes are the consistent findings, including a pronounced drought that left many rivers and sources in the southern Dolomites dried out. ⑤This was followed by the strongest