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Submitted: June 21, 2012
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Black Black Heartby `yuumei

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Macabre & Horror

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It's clear that we are all dependent on oil in one form or another, and while everyone is complaining about rising gas prices, most people usually don't consider the true cost of oil.

Oil companies like to spin lies about how the earth's resources is for everyone, which is why they should have the right to drill everywhere to make that resource available to the public. Sounds nice when they put it that way, doesn't it? In actuality, when they bribe governments to drill in the once protected wilderness, the profit they gain by selling that oil goes only to them, while the environmental damage is billed to the rest of humanity. You can see it as an invisible sales tax.

For every dollar you spend on gas, you and your children will be paying countless more for rising medical costs created by pollution. And pollution comes in all forms. From the city smog that gives children asthma to tainted sea food from oil spills that can cause cancer, the damage is boundless. That's not to mention the climate change that will endanger countless wildlife and cause increasingly severe weather.

Just last year, my home town was hit by a severe storm that uprooted entire rows of trees. Even the hundred year old Christmas tree in our park is gone. This is a place that normally has no storms at all, but that storm caused so much damage and a three day black out. Do you think the oil companies are going to pay for that? Nope. But what they will pay for are lobbyists to bribe the government to give them 1 trillion dollars in subsidies instead of investing in clean energy.

This black black heart of humanity is not the future we want for our children, but what can we do? The transition from fossil fuel to clean energy is a slow but necessary one, and you can help speed up the process but telling your government to stop wasting 1 trillion dollars per year on subsidizing fossil fuel. It is not a sustainable energy source and only idiots would keep throwing money at a dying resource when they could be using that money to fund renewable energy research. We shouldn't be trying to relive the bygone past of low gas prices, instead, we should be looking toward a clean and renewable future.

You can help now by visiting 350.org and click on GET INVOLVED and sign the end oil subsidies petition. Just think of how much we can accomplish with 1 trillion dollars for clean energy research instead of subsidizing oil.

More information:
Video: How dependent are we on oil?
Climate change 101
Effects of oil on wildlife
Oil and gas company ignores safety
US ignores lessons of BP oil spill

~SerieSerendipity 6 days ago Hobbyist Traditional Artist

You're art is so meaningful! It's helping the world's awareness.

~meranii-chan May 5, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

You leave me in awe...

I love your artwork and its meaning.

~rosacio May 2, 2013

Visit my gallery, you'll not regret, it's good. Thanks :3

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~PikyoPocketNoses 26 minutes ago Hobbyist General Artist

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*Denece-the-sylcoe May 1, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

This is such a deep and meaningful piece.

You have expressed so much about the problems in our society in just a simple image.
I will say this, global warming doesn't cause more frequent and severe weather. It DOES effect weather. A hotter atmosphere can change wind currents and ocean current, for example, there might be warmer water more up north in the new york region because of changes in ocean current allowing a hurricane to strike in this area. Weather is very complicated and has a lot to do with geography as well.
I love this piece though...all your work really conveys emotion and really drives home these impotent messages!

~KatSpearheart May 1, 2013

Wow this says a lot

~tsitra00 Apr 28, 2013 New member

Love that you classified this as "macabre and horror" because the truth that it portrays is just that: horrific. I noticed the 8 million+ pageviews you have and can't help but applaud you for most definitely informing over seven million people about the atrocities humanity and its pollution bring to the earth along with other global problems. Congrats.