https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/07/1297486/-The-Most-Striking-Climate-Change-Sculpture-You-ll-Ever-See?detail=email?detail=emailclassic
The image below is of a sculpture by street artist Isaac Cordal, which has been dubbed "Politicians Debating Global Warming."
The first time I saw this image, my visceral reaction was immediate and profound, gazing upon politicians debating our planet's global crisis with the waters lapping at their lapels, filling their mouths and covering them completely.
And then I learned more about this image, and about Cordal's work. These are tiny, clay figures which he crafted and then placed in a puddle on a street in Berlin, Germany. When seen from afar, they are nothing but dots poking out of temporarily collected water. However, when one zooms in, this is the result: a majestic, striking picture of politicians refusing to act even as the waters overcome them, and us.
It's a perfect metaphor for climate change inaction: from afar, it's easy to ignore and dismiss, but zoom in and the crisis is clear.
What's amazing about this image is that Cordal's original intention was not for this image to be about climate change. Titled "electoral campaign" the image comes from his Follow the Leaders sculpture series, which contains incredible, miniature sculptures of urban decline and societal collapse.
However, the image has been reinterpreted and recast by Cordal's audience, partially because he himself, among the hundreds of tiny sculptures he's planted around Europe, has created sculptures explicitly about global warming. These images are from his 2012 installation entitled "Waiting for climate change":
the pictures are a statement of fact to anyone with out an agenda to defy regulations that would hurt big business but save ultimately millions of lives human, animal, and plant that alone make the a profound moral compass that we should heed along with the other 97% of scientist saying climate change is real and we are the primary contributors. quick question to religious evangelical right " do you think God would create such a self sufficient place for us to live and throw in a warranty period"??????? more pictures in article all with the moral being "climate deniers stop being stupid, you will look real ignorant dying from nothing".
