A bill has been proposed to cut federal funding for the Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Since the 1980s, the Antarctic Artists and Writers program has taken various individuals and groups of artists, authors, science-fiction writers, sculptors, and painters to Antarctica.
The Antarctic Artists & Writers Program has deployed nearly 100 poets, children’s authors, science-fiction writers, sculptors, painters, and other artists to Antarctica and the propaganda generated by the visits is considered priceless to climate change proponents.
Recently, it was reported that the National Science Foundation (NSF) spends tens of millions on its Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, which includes taxpayer-funded trips for poets to visit the Southern Hemisphere. In addition to supporting poets’ and musicians’ trips to the region, the Artists and Writers Program currently has $31.5 million in active grants, including $2.2 million to send 48 primary school teachers from Alaska to the Polar Regions, and $5.6 million to Columbia University to create “voicemails from the future” to warn against climate change.