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I love the unique and majestic sight of an iceberg sculptured by the elements. May future generations get to enjoy them.
Thankful that our Eagle friends are still here despite Hurricane Ian. Am hoping and praying that we do a better job looking after our climate from now on!
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️tr
Climate change protest, Westminster Abbey
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2015, charcoal and soft pastel on Stonehenge paper, 38 x 50 inches (96.5 x 127 cm)
website: pamelaspeight.com/
Precarious is a series of drawings about the delicate balance between life and death in landscapes once familiar but now utterly altered by human activity and carelessness. We have created a culture in which there is a constant flux between ugliness and beauty. We enter a state of grace through our art, writing, music, architecture, dance, yet we also leave behind islands of plastic garbage at sea and the hideous carcasses of industrialization that cannot be biologically reabsorbed into the earth.
The images in this group of drawings have a human presence evident in vestigial structures, yet there is absence too. The emotional impact of changes we have wrought on the planet cannot be denied. Brutal deforestation, fires, flooding, drought, accelerating rates of species extinction are disturbing, yet there is a fascination for them imposed on our consciousness.
There are events occurring that are dark, painful and contradictory, yet essential to contemplate and articulate. We have the capacity to reflect, to resist looking away. Precarious acknowledges the paradox of our ability to both create and destroy that exists within all of us. It is also part of my ongoing exploration of a deep connection with nature held by many of us. In a sense these drawings are both an expression of grief and a catharsis. The subject is a painful one that speaks to our vulnerability. There is beauty in decay, which is associated with nourishing new life. Yet will the immense changes taking place now lead to this outcome? What forms of life might survive? What others may unintentionally be generated?
There is material irony in this series about life on the edge. Charcoal is carbon, or burned and compressed organic material. Soft pastel pigments are mined. As such, there are elements of destruction within the creative process.
Le pale eoliche catturano l’energia del vento, trasformandola in elettricità per il nostro uso. Questo processo è solo una piccola parte di un ciclo molto più vasto: l’incessante scambio di energia tra il Sole, la Terra e lo spazio.
Il Sole invia fotoni ad alta energia che attraversano l’atmosfera e riscaldano la superficie terrestre. La Terra, a sua volta, non trattiene questa energia all’infinito, ma la restituisce allo spazio sotto forma di radiazione infrarossa, composta da molti fotoni a bassa energia.
Questa trasformazione è cruciale per mantenere il pianeta abitabile: se la Terra trattenesse tutta l’energia ricevuta, sarebbe un inferno rovente.
Ma il bilancio energetico che si crea alimenta qualcosa di molto più straordinario: l’aumento di entropia e informazione. È da qui che nascono il vento, le correnti oceaniche, la vita stessa, e persino il pensiero umano.
La nostra capacità di catturare una minima parte di questo flusso—come fanno le pale eoliche—è un esempio di come possiamo convivere con le leggi della natura senza interromperne l’armonia. Il Sole continua a splendere, il vento a soffiare, e la Terra a trasformare l’energia, creando e rigenerando il nostro mondo in un equilibrio dinamico che sostiene ogni cosa, dalle onde ai cieli stellati, fino alla complessità della coscienza umana.
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Witzelrodaer (Witzelröder) Schweiz, trockenes Seitental im Buntsandsteinhang rechts der Werra
Witzelrodaer (Witzelröder) Switzerland, dry side valley in the Buntsandstein (or Bunter sandstone) slope right of the Werra
Blick in Richtung Bad Salzungen und den Bergen der Rhön.
View towards Bad Salzungen and the Rhoen mountains.
A reflection of a closed window in an open window.
It's all about attitude and being neighbourly!
Happy Fence Friday!
Un reflet d'une fenêtre fermée dans une fenêtre ouverte.
Tout est une question d'attitude!
Sea Forest / Land De-Forest - the Madness of Mankind.
Rain forests - that reduce tons of CO2 - destroyed by the thousands of acres each day.
Wind turbines - that reduce? CO2 - built by the thousands at great cost to the electricity consumer.
Links to the original 2017 LD web page;
londondada.art/2017/01/13/london-dada-work-no-900-sea-for...
During the Extinction Rebellion occupation of Oxford Circus I was told that people who live there were able to hear birdsong for the first time in 30 years.
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An optimistic Canadian from BEAUTIFUL BRITISH COLUMBIA
Environmental Change vs Environmental Action
Thank you so much for sharing how you feel from around the world!
Comments are encouraged sharing how you feel about the environment or stories about positive environmental change you witness. Feel free to post your photos and words on the new group below.
I welcome you to join "Environmental Voices" www.flickr.com/groups/1547965@N22/
Thank you and see you there.
Please visit www.runforoneplanet.com for some environmental inspiration.
PS: I worked on this image while watching Obama's Press conference. I hope the people will continue to support his policies and politics. Anything is better than the previous 8 years.
Change takes time.
Sedotto dalla cappa di caldo, l’avventore della piazza trova ristoro nella parvenza d’ombra di un albero stordito dagli umori del suo sudore.
A reflection of a closed window in an open window.
It's all about attitude and being neighbourly!
Un reflet d'une fenêtre fermée dans une fenêtre ouverte.
Tout est une question d'attitude!
I believe we're facing the most important moment in our generation, perhaps in any generation yet. We talk about saving the planet, but the planet will survive. Life on it, maybe not. To stop us hurtling towards extinction will take massive and immediate change from every government, every business and every individual. No one will be immune from the crisis. We're all responsible for causing it - and we can all be responsible for preventing it.
big storm in the forecast - again. Yesterday there was a violent storm and Tornado at UBC.
bc.ctvnews.ca/tornado-officially-recorded-at-b-c-universi...
part of Of course of 'Climate Change"
St Louis River walk, North St. Louis. This is a salt hill. Found it when walking up the McKinley Bridge......
Taken in the Snowy River National Park about 6 months after fires devastated the region. This section of the park was a mixture of temperate forest, dryer on the ridges but with sections of deep moist gullies, thick with tree ferns and tall with mountain ash. The decimation is astounding.
Solva swimmers sending a message to the UK government at the G7. Climate change is a matter of urgency, as is the restoration of the aid budget.
A girl looks out over submerged houses in Panyagor in Twic East, Jonglei State in South Sudan. Flooding has devastated much of the area and it is estimated that more than 800,000 people in South Sudan have been affected by the current flooding. Contrary to previous years, water levels in many locations are not receding despite the onset of the dry season. This year, a higher number of children are now exposed for longer periods of time to the risks and vulnerabilities associated with the impact of floods. Many have had to flee their destroyed homes and are unable to find food as fields have been flooded. More than 390,000 children are now without access to basic services including social services, clean water, proper healthcare and schooling. Local authorities estimate that as much as 85% of Twic East is affected by flooding with as many as 80,000 people having fled the area for safer drier ground.
Climate change is impacting children in South Sudan as never before.
© UNICEF/UN0594302/Naftalin
Photo essay here: Prolonged flooding increases challenges children face in Panyagor
Flying back from Melbourne to Brisbane yesterday, it was devastating to see continuous fires and smoke from the Hunter Valley to Brisbane. Here you can see the town of Armidale and the fires on the nearby Great Dividing Range in the Oxley Wild Rivers National Park. Three people have lost their lives and 100s of houses destroyed as well as wildlife.
This is the "URG Coral"; first recorded and measured by the Underwater Research Group in the 1960s. Based on growth rates it is thought to be over a century, maybe 300 years, old. Today I found it totally bleached, following months of extreme conditions with heavy rains, storms and warm waters.
King tides- Tarawa Kiribati
The seawalls are meant to protect us, but due to "Climate Change" we no
longer feel safe within the walls for the King Tides are getting Higher and
Stronger.
In Camera Multiple Exposure
My series of photographs focuses on environmental degradation affecting everyday life. Since last one hundred years, the equation between natural resources and human population has seriously gone wrong resulting in chaotic imbalance of ecosystems and human societies. The world faces dearth of food and space for human population; as a result the burden results in rapid deforestation, invasion of wild spaces, global warming, and land erosion. Excessive consumption of fossil fuel causes environmental warming.
This phenomenon is outrageously rampant in Pakistan because of lacking awareness. Our glaciers are receding, valleys becoming polluted and agricultural lands being colonized to accommodate ever bulging population. My photographs (multiple exposure technique) provoke the viewer to concentrate on invasive role of increasing local tourism in polluting glacial landscapes, rivers, lakes and mountain valleys. Heaps of non biodegradable plastic bags and bottles not only litter surroundings but also mark irreversible effects on environmental preservation.