A constellation of enterprising ideas about art and artifact collections.
Lastly, the biggest reason that sea freight will most likely not have a major impact on emissions in our sector is due to the lack of any real incentives besides “doing the right thing”. It costs about the same. It takes longer. It places more of a burden on staff. Why do it unless you have no other choice? One must have a true incentive, usually financial, to make a big impact.
A little over a week ago, I attended a prescient event in New York hosted by the Responsible Art Market Initiative which presented panels on two of the major topics of our time: NFTs and Sustainability in the stark white, overhung walls of the below ground Phillips auction house building on Park Avenue.
The logic of the argument focuses on carbon emissions where air freight vastly out-pollutes sea freight. While I fully side with the GCC’s goals and intent, sea freight hardly qualifies as clean as it emits other noxious bi-products including CO2 by fueling the tens of thousands of ocean vessels with fossil fuels.
The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed widespread suffering on people, labor, and budgets around the world for well over a year now. Amidst all the friction between seemingly binary choices, it has also sparked some creative fires in our art and artifact wilderness that appear to acknowledge that this extraordinary moment aligns economic incentives with sustainability practices like a summer solstice on a clear day at Stonehenge.
![Savings and [Decentralized] Loans](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b818890297114b18b5c6121/1647254062984-PX9MHSNR1WDT1IKS5O3B/Decentralized+Model.png)
