Can the arts help to save the world?

We live in a world that is reaching a critical point, at which the equilibrium between a healthy environ-ment, the energy our society needs to maintain or improve this lifestyle and our interconnected econo-mies could quickly change, from the current complex balance to a completely new reality wherein unbalance would be the rule and human beings would have to become more creative than ever before in order to survive. Have the arts a role in all this? Do artists have a responsibility in this context?