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“The world is moving towards increasing problems of freshwater shortage, scarcity and depletion, with 64% of the world’s population expected to live in water-stressed basins in 2025.”

https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=1B9LQQkm_qMC&oi=fnd&pg=PR16&dq=environmental+issues+&ots=LPX1eXeGtH&sig=z5DdM5o2eTx5PoJ-KDsd4h5oX5Y&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

“The environmental challenges from coal mining include coal mine accidents, land subsidence, damage to the water environment, mining waste disposal and air pollution. These are either environmental pollution or landscape change.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1674526409601873

Deforestation has gotten almost twice as large, equalling the size of Florida and Maine combined. Besides resulting in a loss of food, shelter, and other resources for local inhabitants, deforestation has a number of local environmental effects such as erosion of soils, reduced rainfall, reduced capacity of soils to hold water, increased frequency and severity of floods and warmer temperatures.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es00074a001

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At first glance it is made to look like the two people are swimming with nature however it subverts this when you look closer at the picture in it you can see that the water is filled with plastic bags and bottles that resemble different kinds of fish in fact it is estimated all together there is around 269,000 tonnes of plastic in the ocean which is extremely detrimental to the environment as plastic is actually toxic to sea life as well as humans. The ‘smiley faces’ on the bags seems to condescend the audience as it shows that even though we are happy to use these bags and live a consumerist lifestyle throwing them away as we see fit  that we are the source of the these problems.

Another topic the artist brings to the viewers attention is the lionfish ( also known as the zebra turkey fish ) which is native to the indo-pacific oceans however due to human interference is now an invasive species in the waters of Florida and the Caribbean which threatens the local eco-system as it has poisonous spines that  local fauna have not evolved a defence against meaning this fish has no natural predator and will out compete all of the other fish that share a food source  which has a knock on effect on all all sea life in the Atlantic ocean which includes the much larger fish us humans catch and eat.

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In this image it shows five very large smoke stacks  releasing thick plumes of polluting smoke into a dark polluted sky. Each of these chimneys have a skull and crossbones on them which is commonly used as a symbol to represent poison

The first thing that is brought to your attention when looking at this photograph is the contrast of the black sky against the white smoke, the only colour in this image is the dark browns of the rust on the metal this is to represent the negative and bleak outlook the artist has on the future if we keep polluting our atmosphere at the speed we currently are without trying to solve this problem.

The smoke stacks are also shown to be quite rusty and beaten up which could be how the artist is trying to say that using fossil fuels are outdated and we need to focus on renewable energies that don't pollute the atmosphere

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In this photograph the people are wearing hazmat suits to go outside this could be because of radiation or a hostile environment caused by the pollution of our planet in years to come

The flowers stand out due to the colour separation of cold and warmth. The very front of the image is calm and as you concentrate towards the background, a terrifying scene, trees winding into each other. The colouration in the imagery also appears lifeless making the flower the main focus of colour but due to the whites being very bright the flower becomes outcasted as we question the situation.

The person gently inspecting the flower could be a scientist/botanists inspecting the land for life.

The fact that the people in this picture are wearing these suits makes us question how we as humans will wait until an environmental issue such as this gets out of hand and then act on it even though the damage has already been done.