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While many of us enjoy the luxury of watching TV on our couch with a cold can of soda or beer, the ice caps are melting at an alarming rate. Polar bears that need the ice to hunt and survive are drowning or starving; sometimes forced to search through dumpsters to survive. www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news…

Global warming is undeniably here. 2000-present date was the warmest decade on record worldwide www.epa.gov/climatechange/indi… . This is not part of the natural climate change but a human induced and an abnormally accelerated increase in temperature. Waiting for the countdown until all the ice caps and glacier have melted and water level has risen is not an option.

Many of us think that helping to prevent global warming is just about driving a hybrid car, or getting solar panels, which most people can't afford, so why bother?

While fossil fuel burning cars are a huge source of green house gasses, many other things also add up to create the problem. The manufacturing of anything takes up energy, which is usually created by burning fossil fuel like gas and coal. Relying on oil also lets big oil companies like BP and ExxonMobile get away with oil spills time and time again (with the most recent large spill in Yellowstone national park billingsgazette.com/news/local… ) With that in mind, I'm not saying we should give up everything we own and live in the wild, but any amount of reduce, reuse, and recycle will lessen the amount of new products that needs manufacturing. And that's something we can all do.

Taking public transportation, carpooling, or riding a bike are a cost efficient and healthy way to save energy and money. Even eating less meat (especially cows and pigs), can greatly help because it takes more energy to raise a cow than some crops of the same nutritional value. Cows are also a huge source of methane, which is another type of greenhouse gases that's responsible for global warming.

There are many other small things that we can all do help the environment like turning off the lights when we're not in the room, or not using the AC or heater if we could just take off or put on a jacket instead.

Change is not waiting for the scientists and government to come up with the solution, change starts with the little things we can do everyday.

For more simple ways to help:
what we can do at home
www.stopglobalwarming.org
Plant a billion trees
what the heck are we doing to arctic ice?

All profits from dA prints, not just from this image, are donated to environmental and animal welfare organizations.

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It has come to my attention that my work closely resembles this one pepey.deviantart.com/art/globa… which was made 2 years before mine. I have never seen this until after I posted my drawing, and people started telling me about the similarities between the two. I did not copy the idea and the similarities are purely coincidental. Congrats to pepey who came up with it first, but please do not assume that I plagiarized.

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Comments: 7263

Batiemily In reply to ??? [2014-03-10 14:03:45 +0000 UTC]

This is amazing!!!! I love it!

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Natasha-Mezheven In reply to ??? [2014-03-09 21:07:03 +0000 UTC]

It's too true...

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athena4wisdom In reply to ??? [2014-03-09 18:37:10 +0000 UTC]

This idea is so cool!

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xxxCherryblossom In reply to ??? [2014-03-08 17:45:22 +0000 UTC]

looks so realistic

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deamunich In reply to ??? [2014-03-07 12:35:52 +0000 UTC]

beautiful and heart-breaking.

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LucaSternenkind In reply to ??? [2014-03-07 03:21:28 +0000 UTC]

This is just an amazing work with a really important message! We have to start acting before it is too late...

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cathybiscult In reply to ??? [2014-03-04 13:51:11 +0000 UTC]

你真是個有才華的女孩www
You're talented!

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MockingMyself13 In reply to ??? [2014-03-04 02:53:50 +0000 UTC]

i lovvvee this and i totally agree with helping the environment; i'll make a habit of doing these things

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Ezzachan [2014-02-26 18:26:16 +0000 UTC]

So amazing :0

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DragonTattoo1830 In reply to ??? [2014-02-23 05:38:46 +0000 UTC]

I love you worksssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

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SairaCili In reply to ??? [2014-02-22 23:44:13 +0000 UTC]

This image is so powerful. Great work!!  

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EvilAngel52 In reply to ??? [2014-02-22 20:19:34 +0000 UTC]

Ths is extremely accurate i love the representation. I saw this drawing a couple time ago and after watching i was so insipires i made a short story and it's one of the best stores i've written even if it's only one page long so thank u so much for the inspiration

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DuomoChiaro In reply to ??? [2014-02-22 19:24:17 +0000 UTC]

beautiful picture, but depressingly accurate for the future of mankind.

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Cynthal In reply to ??? [2014-02-22 18:27:19 +0000 UTC]

I love this. It makes my heart ache to think people still thing global warming/ global climate change are false and refuse to do anything to change it. Oh and the fact that someone else made a similar artwork earlier on shows that you two have a strong mind about the world around you, and want it to change for the better

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YuInWonderland In reply to ??? [2014-02-22 17:44:21 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful ! I love the colors !And the idea !

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amanda2324 In reply to ??? [2014-02-22 17:16:52 +0000 UTC]

After doing some research, and talking to an environmental scientist, it is completely debatable how much is /truly/ the fault of humans. This period of climate change began long before the Industrial Revolution, long before humans started to make any sort of noteworthy problems for the physical world. It makes no sense, then, to blame humans for climate change, or even the speed of it.


There are countless variables that go into the change of climate. Blaming one variable over all others makes no sense. Volcano eruptions do more to the atmosphere in one eruption than humans do in years, for example.

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gdpr-27532672 In reply to ??? [2014-02-21 21:05:46 +0000 UTC]

This is both terrible and amazing. Both beautiful and ugly. Both... embarrassing and making me tremble. Probably the most amazing piece of art I have seen all week, and I say this as an artist myself. This deserves more credit than I can provide.
But I can thank you at least, thank you for sharing this piece of yourself with the outside world.

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taiodesu4649 In reply to ??? [2014-02-21 16:13:03 +0000 UTC]

Really effective message love it   

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moonstone-budgie In reply to ??? [2014-02-21 11:43:30 +0000 UTC]

i have featured (i guess that's what i would call it) this piece of art in a journal entry of mine i thought i would show the few people that watch me your amazing skill

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moonstone-budgie In reply to moonstone-budgie [2014-02-21 11:47:02 +0000 UTC]

hope you don't mind

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moonstone-budgie [2014-02-21 11:35:14 +0000 UTC]

your art is so beautifully sad im glad that someone is showing what is happening when thousand ignore it so, i thank you. 

the detail is stunning and the unspoken story that is behind this image its all just WOW just, WOW.

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KenCity In reply to ??? [2014-02-19 11:13:17 +0000 UTC]

the message it brings...  

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hardriff In reply to ??? [2014-02-19 03:57:42 +0000 UTC]

deja sin aliento

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YaoiPizzax3 In reply to ??? [2014-02-18 06:02:46 +0000 UTC]

It will be like that in about 50-75 years

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AidenShield In reply to ??? [2014-02-16 00:46:35 +0000 UTC]

Powerful imagery and design. I could totally see this on a poster!

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SinononAsada In reply to ??? [2014-02-15 22:14:00 +0000 UTC]

Wow...this art is amazing. And thank you for bringing attention to this matter. This is terribly important, and just the smallest things we can do can save these polar bears.

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SilentSnowdust In reply to ??? [2014-02-15 16:10:55 +0000 UTC]

Transmission of the global events through art is always good.

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Pokingaround In reply to ??? [2014-02-14 02:58:19 +0000 UTC]

Very good art, and very good facts.

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ghostshado13 In reply to ??? [2014-02-12 05:01:51 +0000 UTC]

Wow, u r soooo great at Graphic Design..... your art is astonishing, but it's also so true.

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JeanaBeana In reply to ??? [2014-02-12 00:19:38 +0000 UTC]

I find it strange though how Summer here in Australia has been rather cool this year (at least in brisbane). We've had like two weeks I could call hot the rest is all cold and its nearly over.

Its unusual because brisbane is normally a very hot place. But the past couple of years...it hasn't been.

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ChesireCat96 In reply to ??? [2014-02-09 16:38:22 +0000 UTC]

Good picture and important topic

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CommanderScarr In reply to ??? [2014-02-09 02:13:44 +0000 UTC]

ah well.. I like yours better

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CodenameAJ In reply to ??? [2014-02-08 20:56:50 +0000 UTC]

So true!!!! My heart breaks for the polar bears!!!! The artwork is amazing too!!!!

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ghostinthemachine14 In reply to ??? [2014-02-08 20:16:03 +0000 UTC]

Wow

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Jayagc In reply to ??? [2014-02-02 01:26:38 +0000 UTC]

this is beautiful

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bobba88 In reply to ??? [2014-02-01 23:37:50 +0000 UTC]

very beautiful and emotional ....i like the idea so much

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Leo4All In reply to ??? [2014-01-29 17:11:42 +0000 UTC]

I understand what you are saying above, but you forget one thing: 


You can't stop global warming. Why else did the earth have ice ages? Global warming has always been on earth from the beginning. And it will continue to be on earth, even if mankind were to go extinct.


We can only try to slow down global warming with the terms described above. It will not disappear. 


And don't forget that without greenhouse gasses, life on earth wasn't even possible. They keep out the deadly radiation from the sun and they keep warmth and oxygen inside the protective barrier they are. 

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Beldarius In reply to ??? [2014-01-28 13:44:54 +0000 UTC]

Saving the world from global warming is a good idea now... it just makes me wonder what people 5 billion years from now can do to stop it. That's when the sun will die and turn Earth into a ball of lava.

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xCatherinx In reply to ??? [2014-01-28 04:13:42 +0000 UTC]

ITS THE FINALL COUNTDOOOOWN

DEW DEW DEEEW DEEW DA DA DEW DEW DEEEEW!

Srry

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Broadcastdragons In reply to xCatherinx [2014-02-16 20:59:14 +0000 UTC]

Dam...
Can i sing along too?

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xCatherinx In reply to Broadcastdragons [2014-02-16 23:19:22 +0000 UTC]

YES!

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Broadcastdragons In reply to xCatherinx [2014-02-17 16:42:13 +0000 UTC]

DU dududududu, DUDUDUDU
dududuudduudduuuuuuuuuuuuuddddddddddddddduuuududududuudududduduudduudududududuudududududududuud!

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xCatherinx In reply to Broadcastdragons [2014-02-19 04:17:25 +0000 UTC]

*dances and head bangs*

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Basement-Aviator In reply to ??? [2014-01-27 06:03:37 +0000 UTC]

You're doing it right when I instantly know what the message is without reading the description.

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Monoyuki-san In reply to ??? [2014-01-26 11:44:25 +0000 UTC]

It is really impressive and a very unique I idea. I love this art a lot in every way it is explained. 

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Yumijii In reply to ??? [2014-01-26 00:21:53 +0000 UTC]

Amazing!! *-* I'm a great fan of your work!! *o*

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JinxedJinx In reply to ??? [2014-01-25 13:52:05 +0000 UTC]

Simply brilliant. The whole picture speaks by itself, I'm in awe... and quite sad also.

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Elaol In reply to ??? [2014-01-25 10:33:49 +0000 UTC]

I just have to say that when I am reading you're description, I am glad that there are more people who understand situation in the world and you inspire me to continue learning how to draw so I could one day create something like this 

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TheNimster In reply to ??? [2014-01-24 23:00:51 +0000 UTC]

You have been an inspiration to some of my work and as such, I had to feature you in the journal entry that I posted to mark the first anniversary since I had created my account! Regards!

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TheNimster In reply to TheNimster [2014-01-24 23:05:36 +0000 UTC]

thenimster.deviantart.com/jour…

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