Adam Met of AJR talks with Billboard about climate change activism and the Harris/Walz ticket from the Democratic National Convention.
– but he isn’t making a beeline for vacation time. Instead, the bass guitarist headed to Chicago, IL, for the 2024to show his support for the party’s presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, and her running mate, Minnestoa Gov. Tim Walz. Climate activism has been as passion of Met’s just as long as music has.
What was your experience in gathering bipartisan support for your plan to streamline the permits needed for new wind and solar projects?This all started as I was working on the Inflation Reduction Act, which was the largest investment in climate in the United States. What do you think about artists producing an exorbitant number of album variants and the impact that may have on the environment?There are a lot of different pieces in the music industry that contribute to the impact of climate. My philosophy on this is that the music industry should be early adopters to new technologies, but the music industry is not set up to develop these new technologies.
Merchandise, too, is a huge area in the music industry and we’ve already seen a lot of artists specifically choose to work with companies that are not doing fast fashion. The music industry taking a stand and saying we’re going to go for something that is going to be long lasting. You might have to pay a tiny bit more for , but it is significantly better for the environment. We did a partnership with an organization called Reverb.
I recently spent some time in Grenada, which was hit really hard by Hurricane Beryl recently. Hurricanes that strong arriving so early in the season are a direct result of climate change.
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