Artists and the arts sector need to take a hard look at the kind of social license we are granting the fossil fuel industry and weigh that up with the contract we have with the audiences and communities we serve.

Australian households are directly responsible for 20 per cent of Australia’s carbon emissions. Yet the persistent focus on individual responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint ignores the fact that most Australians have little to no control over the biggest contributor to household emissions – the energy efficiency of their homes.