Saving the Wilderness

December 5, 2012 at 11:25pm
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CreatorRoberto Conti (Imho) OriginLondon, UK Sitehttp://www.imho-blog.comI chose this artwork because it illustrated what the Occupy Wall Street is really about. They are the 99% fighting for change and redistribution of funds from the 1%. The man pounding with the sledgehammer working hard is a mirror image of what the working class does every day. I think that’s what really draws attention to it and causes people to look at it. For the 99% working class they see it and can relate to working that hard just to get by, and that’s what makes it so powerful.

CreatorRoberto Conti (Imho)

OriginLondon, UK

Sitehttp://www.imho-blog.com
I chose this artwork because it illustrated what the Occupy Wall Street is really about. They are the 99% fighting for change and redistribution of funds from the 1%. The man pounding with the sledgehammer working hard is a mirror image of what the working class does every day. I think that’s what really draws attention to it and causes people to look at it. For the 99% working class they see it and can relate to working that hard just to get by, and that’s what makes it so powerful.

November 26, 2012 at 11:14pm
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Percentage of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 2006 (all gases, in Teragram [Tg] CO2equivalent) This is a simple graph explaining how much and where the majority of our greenhouse gas emissions come from in the United States. It’s very eye opening to where the real problems lay and can give us ideas on how to reduce or stop the emissions. The click-through link on the graph brings you to a longer article explaining the graph in more detail as well as additional graphs. It’s very interesting to read. 

Percentage of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 2006 (all gases, in Teragram [Tg] CO2equivalent)

This is a simple graph explaining how much and where the majority of our greenhouse gas emissions come from in the United States. It’s very eye opening to where the real problems lay and can give us ideas on how to reduce or stop the emissions. The click-through link on the graph brings you to a longer article explaining the graph in more detail as well as additional graphs. It’s very interesting to read. 

11:10pm
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Photo Title Rainforest And The Antarctic Caption/Description The remains of some of the 700,000 square kilometers of rainforest land which has been deforested in the Amazon basin since 1970, according the the National Institute of Space Research of Brazil, lie next to some farm buildings near Alta Floresta in Para State, Brazil, Aug. 28, 2007. Brazil emits the fourth-largest amount of global greenhouse gasses, mainly because of Amazon deforestation. Another amazing photograph of what deforestation looks like in the Amazon. A serious epidemic that needs to be stopped immediately. As the photographer wrote in the caption Brazil is a large source of global greenhouse gas emissions and a vital and beautiful part of the world is suffering for few farmers to profit or allow their animals to graze.

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Rainforest And The Antarctic


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The remains of some of the 700,000 square kilometers of rainforest land which has been deforested in the Amazon basin since 1970, according the the National Institute of Space Research of Brazil, lie next to some farm buildings near Alta Floresta in Para State, Brazil, Aug. 28, 2007. Brazil emits the fourth-largest amount of global greenhouse gasses, mainly because of Amazon deforestation.


Another amazing photograph of what deforestation looks like in the Amazon. A serious epidemic that needs to be stopped immediately. As the photographer wrote in the caption Brazil is a large source of global greenhouse gas emissions and a vital and beautiful part of the world is suffering for few farmers to profit or allow their animals to graze.

11:07pm
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Photo Title Rainforest And The Antarctic Caption/Description A view of the Amazon Rainforest near Claudia in Mato Grosso, Brazil, set ablaze during the burning season when large sections of it are torched by farmers, to clear it for soy farming or cattle grazing, Sept. 17, 2007. Brazil is the forth largest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet, with 75% of those coming from the destruction of the rainforest. Another amazing photograph of what is happening to the Amazon Rainforest. There is a burning season where large sections are burnt down by farmers and they use the land for their purposes. The cons of what they’re doing far outweigh the pros of them burning it down.

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Rainforest And The Antarctic


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A view of the Amazon Rainforest near Claudia in Mato Grosso, Brazil, set ablaze during the burning season when large sections of it are torched by farmers, to clear it for soy farming or cattle grazing, Sept. 17, 2007. Brazil is the forth largest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet, with 75% of those coming from the destruction of the rainforest.


Another amazing photograph of what is happening to the Amazon Rainforest. There is a burning season where large sections are burnt down by farmers and they use the land for their purposes. The cons of what they’re doing far outweigh the pros of them burning it down.

11:04pm
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Photo Title Rainforest And The Antarctic Caption/Description Amazon Rainforest burns outside of Alta Floresta in Para State, Brazil, Aug. 27, 2007. Tropical forest destruction is responsible for up to 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions.  Deforestation is one of the leading causes for greenhouse gas emissions and in turn is also a leading cause of climate change. This photograph is just a small percentage of the Amazon which is being destroyed daily for industry, wood, and other human needs.

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Rainforest And The Antarctic


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Amazon Rainforest burns outside of Alta Floresta in Para State, Brazil, Aug. 27, 2007. Tropical forest destruction is responsible for up to 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. 


Deforestation is one of the leading causes for greenhouse gas emissions and in turn is also a leading cause of climate change. This photograph is just a small percentage of the Amazon which is being destroyed daily for industry, wood, and other human needs.

11:01pm
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As the climate is changing and causing droughts throughout the world it is seriously endangering the lives of many people. The drought in East Africa in 2011 was the worst in 60 years and about 100,000 people died from the famine caused by the drought. As climate change worsens this reality will only get worse. Factory farming of livestock causes 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions which is part of the problem of climate change.

As the climate is changing and causing droughts throughout the world it is seriously endangering the lives of many people. The drought in East Africa in 2011 was the worst in 60 years and about 100,000 people died from the famine caused by the drought. As climate change worsens this reality will only get worse. Factory farming of livestock causes 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions which is part of the problem of climate change.

12:16am
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Photo Title THE HUMAN TOLL: MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING IN APPALACHIA Caption/Description Erica and Rully Urias must bathe their daughter, Makayla, age 5, in contaminated water that is the color of tea. Their water has been tested and contains high levels of arsenic. The family attributes this water problem primarily to the blasting of the mountaintops for coal. The rhetorical strategies used in this photograph are more powerful and eye catching than those used in many of the other photographs that I chose. The first one I’d like to point out is expression. This girl looks sad and almost ashamed that she has to bathe in this contaminated and disgusting water because of mountaintop removal. The next is evidence of what everyday people have to deal with by this contaminating and dangerous thing that’s happening with the environment. Also the rhetorical strategy of information is given about how much it really effects everyday people that live in the Appalachians. The last rhetorical strategy it uses is one of suffering. We see this little girl isn’t happy and seemingly ashamed, she is clearly suffering and could possibly be suffering health-wise as well because of the levels of arsenic in the water. By seeing this photograph we are more compassionate of what she and her family is going through.

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THE HUMAN TOLL: MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING IN APPALACHIA

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Erica and Rully Urias must bathe their daughter, Makayla, age 5, in contaminated water that is the color of tea. Their water has been tested and contains high levels of arsenic. The family attributes this water problem primarily to the blasting of the mountaintops for coal.


The rhetorical strategies used in this photograph are more powerful and eye catching than those used in many of the other photographs that I chose. The first one I’d like to point out is expression. This girl looks sad and almost ashamed that she has to bathe in this contaminated and disgusting water because of mountaintop removal. The next is evidence of what everyday people have to deal with by this contaminating and dangerous thing that’s happening with the environment. Also the rhetorical strategy of information is given about how much it really effects everyday people that live in the Appalachians. The last rhetorical strategy it uses is one of suffering. We see this little girl isn’t happy and seemingly ashamed, she is clearly suffering and could possibly be suffering health-wise as well because of the levels of arsenic in the water. By seeing this photograph we are more compassionate of what she and her family is going through.

12:07am
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Photo Title THE HUMAN TOLL: MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING IN APPALACHIA Caption/Description A mountaintop removal mine site in eastern Kentucky. Throughout the Appalachian states of Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia, over 500 mountains encompassing nearly a million acres have been blown up, destroying the hemisphere’s oldest and most biologically dense and diverse forests and burying thousands of miles of streams. Proponents argue that in some areas of the mountains, this form of mining is the only way to access thin seams of coal that underground mining would not be able to get. This photograph is very powerful and evokes emotions about how detrimental mountaintop removal really is. Here there is rhetorical strategies of evidence that mountaintop removal is very serious and not good for our environment visually as well as for the well-being of it in general. The other rhetorical strategy is information which it is giving us about what mountaintop removal really looks like and is. The last rhetorical strategy I’d say it uses is taboo because very few people actually know that this is an epidemic that’s happening and has been for a while. The only people who really know about it are those who are very interested in climate change and the things we are doing to our environment that is causing the pollutions that cause climate change to happen.

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THE HUMAN TOLL: MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING IN APPALACHIA


Caption/Description

A mountaintop removal mine site in eastern Kentucky. Throughout the Appalachian states of Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia, over 500 mountains encompassing nearly a million acres have been blown up, destroying the hemisphere’s oldest and most biologically dense and diverse forests and burying thousands of miles of streams. Proponents argue that in some areas of the mountains, this form of mining is the only way to access thin seams of coal that underground mining would not be able to get.


This photograph is very powerful and evokes emotions about how detrimental mountaintop removal really is. Here there is rhetorical strategies of evidence that mountaintop removal is very serious and not good for our environment visually as well as for the well-being of it in general. The other rhetorical strategy is information which it is giving us about what mountaintop removal really looks like and is. The last rhetorical strategy I’d say it uses is taboo because very few people actually know that this is an epidemic that’s happening and has been for a while. The only people who really know about it are those who are very interested in climate change and the things we are doing to our environment that is causing the pollutions that cause climate change to happen.

November 25, 2012 at 11:59pm
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Caption: Addressing environmental abuse, this work puts a downward spin on an uplifting country-and-western gospel song, ‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken?’ to lament the wanton destruction of Turtle Island, the Earth This piece of artwork is a sculpture showing what we are doing to our environment with pollution and wondering if the cycle will ever be broken. It’s demonstrating what should be done to help the environment from being polluted anymore.

Caption: Addressing environmental abuse, this work puts a downward spin on an uplifting country-and-western gospel song, ‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken?’ to lament the wanton destruction of Turtle Island, the Earth


This piece of artwork is a sculpture showing what we are doing to our environment with pollution and wondering if the cycle will ever be broken. It’s demonstrating what should be done to help the environment from being polluted anymore.

11:48pm
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Photo Title Impressions of American Cities Caption/Description Photograph of a city shrouded in smog. I included this photograph as another rhetorical photograph of proof of evidence of smog. This photograph is dated all the way to 1965 which gives us the rhetorical strategy of information that smog has been happening for a while now and air pollution is a problem that has been going on. Also this photograph uses evidence as another rhetorical strategy that smog has been happening and is a serious problem. The title is interesting because it assumes that this is what American cities look like and this is the impression that we are giving off to foreign countries. I think we all can agree that this isn’t the impression we want to be giving off either.

Photo Title

Impressions of American Cities

Caption/Description

Photograph of a city shrouded in smog.

I included this photograph as another rhetorical photograph of proof of evidence of smog. This photograph is dated all the way to 1965 which gives us the rhetorical strategy of information that smog has been happening for a while now and air pollution is a problem that has been going on. Also this photograph uses evidence as another rhetorical strategy that smog has been happening and is a serious problem. The title is interesting because it assumes that this is what American cities look like and this is the impression that we are giving off to foreign countries. I think we all can agree that this isn’t the impression we want to be giving off either.

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