What is the big picture of climate change?

This is the message that author and environmental activist Bill McKibben has tried to deliver for years. 

Part of it is encoded in the name of his organization, Earth 350, that defines the threshhold of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and, once exceeded, with any hope of reversal gone, humankind will be destined to cope with impacts threatening civilization and the diversity of life on the planet.  Go to his site:  Besides the English versions, there are pages translated into French, Portugese, Spanish, and German.

Joining the drumbeat of our theme at Wildlife Art Journal, that art represents a powerful fulcrum for thinking about profound ecological changes occurring in our world, McKibben and his colleagues at Earth 350 helped organize an international art show.  The human/landscape canvasses, often featuring wildlife, are so large they can be seen from satellites in orbit.  The theme is owed to artist Philip Krohn.  As Krohn notes, in the middle of the word EARTH is art.

 (See also the WAJ  story on Jason de Caires creation of an artificial coral reef off Cancun using human statuary by clicking here ).

 And visit Earth 350's expanding art exhibition by clicking here.

There's anelephant created on a soccer pitch in the outskirts of New Dehli, a beetle in the sand at the edge of Cairo, another creature in urban Brazil, a polar bear in the icepack of Langjokull Glacier, Iceland, and a raptor drawn into dried out green space in Los Angeles.
 
To view a sampling at the imagery at WAJ, click here .