Reflection

Reflection

My work is meant to represent Mother Nature watching the Earth slowly die from all of the pollution and destruction that humans have been causing. In my work, the Earth slowly rots, but it also heals itself, representing how our actions can lead to two outcomes: the stopping of climate change or the prolongation of it. I was inspired by all that I have been learning in my environmental science class about increasing carbon dioxide levels and the beginning of the sixth mass extinction. For my English class, I also wrote a paper about how plastic pollution in the ocean is drastically contributing to the decaying of the planet. If the oceans continue to fill with pollution, the world’s biggest carbon sinks will cease to function and production of the majority of the globe’s oxygen will stop. I want to communicate how it is becoming increasingly important for society to take climate change seriously, that it isn’t something that we can brush aside and hope will solve itself.