This cartoon was drawn by Petar Pismestrovic of Australia. It was posted on politicalcartoons.com on December 5th 2009.This cartoon is trying to emphasize the importance in the approaching United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held on December 7th, this coming Monday, in Copenhagen Denmark. The conference is being held to try and reach an international agreement about future actions and laws regarding the Environment and climate change. This is a very globally issue, but President Obama seems to be playing a large role in the conference. He has moved his date of arrival to the conference to the last day, December 18th, considered a crucial period when more leaders will be in attendance. It ids hoped that these world leaders can come to some form of an agreement on the current environmental situation and what needs to be done.
The cartoon also had a caption that said "The same destiny" implying that unless drastic changes can be made at the Copenhagen Conference, Polar bears my suffer the same fate as the woolly mammoth, extinction. I think that it is undebateable that the environment is in trouble. And unless world leaders like President Obama can step up to the plate, our world will continue down a dangerous path.
Aww, how sad :(
ReplyDeleteI was kind of surprised when I read that Barack Obama wouldn't be arriving for the last day of the convention because he really cares about the environment. You'd think that he'd be really involved.
I hope that the Nations Climate Change Convention can come up with some ideas to help save the polar bear!
I agree that something needs to be done with our environment. We should be doing everything in our control to prevent things like global warming from happening, for example, recycling and being less wasteful in general. The fact that Obama is coming on the last day of the conference is unacceptable. If Obama cares so much about the environment, then why would he wait until the last day to come? If he had come sooner, he could gotten more of his input out in the air so more drastic measures can be taken to stop global warming. As for the polar bear, I hope they don't become extinct, even if they are one of Earth's deadliest animals.
ReplyDeleteI do think that something needs to be done to help the environment. People do so much to help the world and animals living on it so hopefully they can all agree on a good action to help save the environment.
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