Even if such preposterousness could be overcome, there would remain all of the questions of why
perspective would not totally determine interpretation, as would happen if interactions were sheerly physical, and of how good art and good criticism would be distinguished from bad.9 Clearly, art and its impact can not be understood without some
allowance for its status as an imaginative reality, a status deeply dependent
on art's physicalness, but not reducible to physicalness.
[20] To put these numbers in
perspective, it currently costs about $ 3.60 a ton to purchase a certified carbon dioxide
allowance traded
on the European Climate Exchange.