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While many of us enjoy the luxury of watching TV on our couch with a cold can of soda or beer, the ice caps are melting at an alarming rate. Polar bears that need the ice to hunt and survive are drowning or starving; sometimes forced to search through dumpsters to survive. [link]

Global warming is undeniably here. 2000-present date was the warmest decade on record worldwide [link] This is not part of the natural climate change but a human induced and an abnormally accelerated increase in temperature. Waiting for the countdown until all the ice caps and glacier have melted and water level has risen is not an option.

Many of us think that helping to prevent global warming is just about driving a hybrid car, or getting solar panels, which most people can't afford, so why bother?

While fossil fuel burning cars are a huge source of green house gasses, many other things also add up to create the problem. The manufacturing of anything takes up energy, which is usually created by burning fossil fuel like gas and coal. Relying on oil also lets big oil companies like BP and ExxonMobile get away with oil spills time and time again (with the most recent large spill in Yellowstone national park [link]) With that in mind, I'm not saying we should give up everything we own and live in the wild, but any amount of reduce, reuse, and recycle will lessen the amount of new products that needs manufacturing. And that's something we can all do.

Taking public transportation, carpooling, or riding a bike are a cost efficient and healthy way to save energy and money. Even eating less meat (especially cows and pigs), can greatly help because it takes more energy to raise a cow than some crops of the same nutritional value. Cows are also a huge source of methane, which is another type of greenhouse gases that's responsible for global warming.

There are many other small things that we can all do help the environment like turning off the lights when we're not in the room, or not using the AC or heater if we could just take off or put on a jacket instead.

Change is not waiting for the scientists and government to come up with the solution, change starts with the little things we can do everyday.

For more simple ways to help:
what we can do at home
www.stopglobalwarming.org
Plant a billion trees
what the heck are we doing to arctic ice?

All profits from dA prints, not just from this image, are donated to environmental and animal welfare organizations.

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It has come to my attention that my work closely resembles this one [link] which was made 2 years before mine. I have never seen this until after I posted my drawing, and people started telling me about the similarities between the two. I did not copy the idea and the similarities are purely coincidental. Congrats to ~pepey who came up with it first, but please do not assume that I plagiarized.
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:iconblackstardragon393:
I had seen this before and I had wondered where it was from. Regardless it is a beautiful picture and something really should be done about pollution.
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~Saraa1996 1 day ago  New member Hobbyist Artist
this is really...moving. I'll try to do everything i can~!!!!
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:iconchocoladza:
the consept is just amazing, made me shiver, I'm always trying to do what ever I can to help our planet, that may help just a little bit :heart: we have the power to change
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Mood: Wow! ~JuliaBullet 2 days ago  Hobbyist General Artist
wow!very interesting!
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~B3X31 2 days ago  Student General Artist
wow. O_O
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:iconbadpersonality:
so coooooooooool!
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:iconday79:
That's deep.

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I plan to live forever.

So far, so good.
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:iconodayakanaai:
Mood: Wow! ~odayakanaai 3 days ago  New member
This is very creative and amazing!
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~SwAgNeSsqwe 3 days ago  New member Hobbyist General Artist
A beautiful and emotional work. I love it!
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~LittleArtist1312 3 days ago  Hobbyist General Artist
fantastic~

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this world can be pretty
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