The Pathos of Global Warming

So many artists have taken on the issue of global warming, and so few have surpassed the real images we all know (calving ice banks, storm surges, and so on).

Perhaps that's the way it should be, or perhaps it represents a failure of our species' imagination.

But Bioephemeraa found a young Japanese artist, Kawano Takeshi, with a new idea or two on the subject: 

 

 

For some reason this last image hits me especially hard…