Impending climate disaster

There is a orange train. At the front, it's written "Climate Disaster". The train is long and big to represents the seriousness of global warming, there not only one issue to climate change : hurricanes, floods, droughts, melting ice sheets.

Sentences "No rush" and "Still plenty of time to do something..." represents the unconsciousness of humans beings. The Earth is optimistic but a train is coming to smash her. The artist denounce those who are climate sceptic, conspiracy or ignorant.

The cartoonist use bubbles to personify Earth, he made her talk. She represent the voice of humans. This is a sarcasm, a figure of irony to scoff of human beings.

The landscape is arid, it's significate that if we not stop the climate change so our future will become like the desert. The cartoonist highlights that only humans can stop the rise of temperatures, because in this desert have not other factor to stop, like in western movies when the heroes is coming for save the innocent.

We can see lines which represents train's speed. We are side by side with global warming because it is coming quickly. According to scientist, in 2050, the overall temperature will be 2°C above the average.

Monte Wolverton is an American cartoonist. He was born on 1948 in Washington. He is a reputable satiric artist. He began on writing of comics. Also, he is a scluptor, writer and painter. For exemple, she wrote The Remnant.

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The black lines in the sky can make reference to the greenhouse gases and the atmoshperic pollution which are emmited by fossils fuels.