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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

MasoudBahal In reply to ??? [2015-06-29 05:40:01 +0000 UTC]

This is really a great Idea. really nice. excellent

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NinasEngine In reply to ??? [2015-06-26 21:27:55 +0000 UTC]

This picture is AMAZING!
I feel really bad for the polar bears...

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luciasoares In reply to ??? [2015-06-25 22:21:52 +0000 UTC]

i really like this! and it  represents perfectly  what you said in the description 

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PanditaChibiChan In reply to ??? [2015-06-25 03:25:10 +0000 UTC]

Pretty!

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sleeps-sister In reply to ??? [2015-06-24 17:46:36 +0000 UTC]

Nice Work!

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MlleLeenah In reply to ??? [2015-06-23 19:38:41 +0000 UTC]

This is really really beautiful. In all the ways it can be. The message behind this work can't be ignore and we all have to make an effort. It's not easy, but we have to try, to make a difference.

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rhea420 [2015-06-17 00:23:06 +0000 UTC]

This is great, it really has a statement that simply cant be ignored. Nice work

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Sketcaroo [2015-06-12 15:33:36 +0000 UTC]

REALLY like how you portray pollution in this drawing.
Simply amazing.

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Kiriforce [2015-06-10 22:25:51 +0000 UTC]

I had to guess passwords for like10minutes to get my login, cause I am so rarely in my dev. account, but holy moly, I love this one! Worth!
You are really a talent.

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AncientShowers In reply to ??? [2015-06-10 19:56:14 +0000 UTC]

Love it, it's so true!

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Buddymoon In reply to ??? [2015-06-08 22:29:26 +0000 UTC]

Great title....love this piece...sad but true.

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SunnyMindBath In reply to ??? [2015-06-08 16:52:45 +0000 UTC]

I can't decide which piece to comment on.. They're all so good! This is absolutely brilliant though. Beautifully disturbing. Well done!

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Mxphamburger [2015-06-04 04:34:50 +0000 UTC]

Great way to describe the world. Good job! I LOVE YOU

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xdmelli [2015-06-03 10:31:17 +0000 UTC]

Great! i guess its the best and most impressive drawing i've ever seen.

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aure1997 In reply to ??? [2015-06-02 12:26:13 +0000 UTC]

lolmystery.com/?id=504h53n7ff

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amam2217 In reply to ??? [2015-06-02 01:28:33 +0000 UTC]

This is powerful and makes me so sad because Polar Bears are my favorite animal and I don't want these beautiful creatures to disappear.

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AskTheKidneyKingEJ In reply to ??? [2015-06-01 22:28:21 +0000 UTC]

*casually turns off lamp that is next to me and pushes away the steak I was about to eat*

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PNMdaeslo92 In reply to ??? [2015-05-31 15:36:30 +0000 UTC]

I love the way that shows the message, it is sublime.

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Cdrew914 In reply to ??? [2015-05-24 00:46:16 +0000 UTC]

deep..

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Astrokiwi In reply to ??? [2015-05-23 09:40:48 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful!!!

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Catsperri [2015-05-21 01:37:01 +0000 UTC]

clever!!!

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Skitch0616 In reply to ??? [2015-05-17 20:11:37 +0000 UTC]

I almost cried at the truth this message rang out. It hit me hard in the heart--but think about it. It's not like no one knows of the costs of industrialization. And seeing many reminders, from peaceful messages such as this, to sad news articles talking of declining polar ice caps, should invoke in all of our chests a beating fire for change. There is a lot we can do. There is. :]  

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sukiDIEyo In reply to ??? [2015-05-17 15:13:30 +0000 UTC]

(Without reading, although I get the meaning of this image.) This picture connects with me on a personal level. I want to go out, and live life, and experience everything, and I know that real life is going on outside. Things are changing, and nature is still as beautiful as ever, but I never go out to see it. The world is becoming more closed off from itself, and it's really weird. There was a time where people actually went outside, and thought people who hoarded inside were strange. Now, when someone wants to go out on their own, or something, they are seen as weird. Or it is too unsafe to. I have literally become that girl. ((Look at my long post, omg, now I've become one of those allegorical commenters. Ew.))

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AndreaSchillaci In reply to ??? [2015-05-17 13:23:14 +0000 UTC]

draw on the computer does not you waste electricity?This drawing does not make sense........you destroy nature using electronic devices, you do not give a fuck problem of nature ..... you just want the attention on you, using themes trivial and obvious.....full of bla bla bla the description

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blakeearth In reply to AndreaSchillaci [2015-05-21 00:40:39 +0000 UTC]

How else is a person able to connect? The end justifies the means.

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AndreaSchillaci In reply to blakeearth [2015-05-21 13:22:42 +0000 UTC]

no one is stupid. That we all know the problems surround the world ... our existence in this world is temporary, the world will die, who cares before or after .... slowly the universe is sucked from holes blacks ... . the sun will explode and it is inevitable ... maybe it will be a space rock bigger than any star or planet and will destroy us .... who cares ....   You want to control everything, and this is not natural .... nature is to follow your instincts and your intellect .... but you can not run away from the inevitable end (for now,immortality in this century is not yet possible) .humanity is doomed to extinction, this is the truth that no one wants to accept ... that is why we continue to have children..stop lie and say to be generous with nature, no one is generous!!!we are not generous among us human, how can we think of nature?

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AndreaSchillaci In reply to AndreaSchillaci [2015-05-21 13:22:52 +0000 UTC]

without money you do not exist, because our society is based only on the money, you do not exist without money, without money you can not study without money you can not eat without money you can not comment on DEVIANTART, without money you can not pay the electricity.

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AndreaSchillaci In reply to blakeearth [2015-05-21 12:52:10 +0000 UTC]

a banal phrase

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AndreaSchillaci In reply to AndreaSchillaci [2015-05-21 13:33:35 +0000 UTC]

our society is still a feud ... you can not go against the Constitution or you'll be killed ..... how can a piece of paper to decide your fate!!!this is not normal, This is not freedom.men is not owned by a corporation!we are not products of the supermarket! why I have to accept this and be faithful?

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AndreaSchillaci In reply to AndreaSchillaci [2015-05-21 13:38:57 +0000 UTC]

why there are wars? the answer is simple ... because there are soldiers trained.......in a world where there is not de concept of war, the war does not exist.  if children are trained to suppress their aggressive impulses ... there will be no more war....this could be a very interesting experiment
Give me a giant fund f money to make this global experiment,without war, we could focus more on the real problems and extend human life and help the nature.....but doing so is against the freedom of mankind, so the only thing to do is wait until the end in silence XD.   

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AndreaSchillaci In reply to AndreaSchillaci [2015-05-21 13:53:12 +0000 UTC]

and no one has the power to be able to subdue all the nations of the world to do this experiment and create a generation of children with no desire to do murders or will to fight and become a soldier! 

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furikoo In reply to ??? [2015-05-17 09:23:20 +0000 UTC]

Woah sooo awesome! I can't trust my eyes! 0.0

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JoJoHose In reply to ??? [2015-05-16 04:35:09 +0000 UTC]

So sad, yet so true.

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NinaFullMetal In reply to ??? [2015-05-15 15:35:31 +0000 UTC]

holy crap, this is so powerful! How have I not seen this yet? xD your work is so beautiful, especially this one, I love the meaning and symbolism here, fantastic job!!!  

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Slenderhand In reply to ??? [2015-05-14 17:14:03 +0000 UTC]

Stunning >x<

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MariaJosePM In reply to ??? [2015-05-10 15:20:44 +0000 UTC]

That's such an amazing and meaningful drawing

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KingdomHeartsEWY In reply to ??? [2015-05-10 10:49:01 +0000 UTC]

It looks beautiful ^w^

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iside2012 In reply to ??? [2015-05-10 06:46:06 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful!!!

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NickNameWTF In reply to ??? [2015-05-10 03:31:00 +0000 UTC]

Omg you're amazing! 

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Samijabrothers [2015-05-08 20:31:59 +0000 UTC]

Very true.. Ye are vise&good artist indeed. To this art, there are no easy words to be say about.

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NinjaKittenDoodles [2015-05-07 23:16:33 +0000 UTC]

You are an amazing artist and this work sends a powerful and true message! You did a great job on this picture and hopefully people around us can start to realize how much we affect the world around us and the environment

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TakanashiKun [2015-05-04 18:59:31 +0000 UTC]

this is really deep and unfortunately true... great painting!

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oz10-Arts [2015-05-04 18:35:07 +0000 UTC]

beautiful !

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ColdflameHikami In reply to ??? [2015-05-04 18:21:08 +0000 UTC]

I just love this picture...
And the message it is delivering... Wow.

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Stevethemagicalpony In reply to ??? [2015-05-04 07:58:07 +0000 UTC]

This is a very inventive piece of art!! It also has a good message and is quite detailed, well done!

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DrawingKittiesnPonys In reply to ??? [2015-05-03 20:09:26 +0000 UTC]

this is amazing. the detail is incredible!!

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mishduf In reply to ??? [2015-05-02 13:05:15 +0000 UTC]

this is so awesome !! may i use this ?

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RoyalPaladin In reply to ??? [2015-04-22 06:01:21 +0000 UTC]

The main thought I guess that this s not even 2 side effect, because in the end it will badly affect the humanity too. Just some time after animals.

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gracemwing In reply to ??? [2015-04-19 04:33:20 +0000 UTC]

This is amazing. There's a lot of meaning in this painting

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NobleFish In reply to gracemwing [2015-04-19 10:31:19 +0000 UTC]

i dont get it....^_^||
but i love it!

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