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  • Environment cartoon. A disused quarry used as a landfill site

    Environment cartoon. Filling a disused quarry with landfill  

    Environment cartoon.

    A disused quarry being used as a landfill dump for waste products.

    A cartoon about environmental impact, indigenous peoples, exploitation, ecological impact, ecology,recycling, waste disposal, waste management.

    For a colour version click here: Landfill cartoon
    Cartoon drawn: 1991
    Cartoon reference number: env068
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  • Environment cartoons: a cartoon about environment-friendly packaging

    Environment cartoon. Environment-friendly litter talking to animals

    Environmental cartoon
    Environment-friendly packaging cartoon

    For a more recent, colour version of this cartoon click here: Non-biodegradable packaging cartoon

    A cartoon about environment-friendly materials. A discarded polystyrene container talking to animals, saying that it likes nature so much that it’s decided to stay around for a long time.

    A cartoon about packaging, litter, recycling, waste, consumerism, bio-decomposition, environmental impact.
    Drawn: 1991
    Cartoon reference number: env069
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  • Pollution cartoon. Evolution cartoon. Evolution from fish to humans, and the consequences

    Cartoon showing evolution from fish to humans

    Evolution cartoon
    Pollution cartoon

    Cartoon showing evolution from fish to humans. The humans then pollute the water, forcing fish to leave the water and initiating a new phase of evolution in the fish

    A cartoon about evolution, pollution, environment, ecology, industrial waste, effluent.

    Cartoon reference number: env070
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  • Environment cartoons: China’s carbon footprint cartoon

    China carbon footprint - cartoon

    A cartoon from my selection of environmental cartoons
    Carbon footprint cartoon
    China’s carbon footprint cartoon

    Editorial cartoon or illustration on the reason why China has a large carbon footprint – because it manufactures goods for the west

    A cartoon about manufacturing in China, imports, experts, trade, pollution, consumerism, the consumer society, manufacturing, carbon credits
    Cartoon reference number: env065

  • Moon cartoon. Macdonald’s logo replaces the moon in the sky

    Moon cartoons. Ronald MacDonald stealing the moon from the sky and replacing it with the MacDonald's logo.

    Moon cartoon

     

    Ronald MacDonald stealing the moon from the sky and replacing it with the MacDonald’s logo (the golden arches)

    A cartoon about the spread of the fast food consumer culture and the domination of transnational companies and global corporations
    Cartoon reference number: mon005

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  • Obesity cartoon: an obese or overweight person compulsively trying to eat more food.

    Obesity cartoon: an obese person trying to reach more food

    Illustration: diet cartoon or obesity cartoon
    Possible cartoon title: Reach for the pie.

    A cartoon about obesity, over eating, compulsive eating, bad habits, compulsion

    An obese or overweight person compulsively trying to eat more food
    Cartoon reference number: fd004
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  • Cookery cartoon or kitchen cartoon: a kitchen full of utensils, of which only the tin opener is ever used

    Cooking cartoon - kitchen utensils

    Cookery cartoon or kitchen cartoon
    Cooking utensils cartoon

    A kitchen full of utensils and food preparation gadgets, of which only the tin opener is ever used

    The caption of this cartoon reads ” I have all these kitchen utensils – but the only one I ever use is the tin opener.”
    Drawn: 2002
    Cartoon reference number: fd002

  • Consumerism Cartoon: the Statue of Liberty as a Symbol of Consumption

    Consumerism cartoon: the Statue of Liberty as a symbol of the consumer society

    Consumerism and consumption cartoon
    Environment cartoon

    The Statue of Liberty turned into a symbol of the liberty to consume in a consumer society.

    I thought about making the statue obese, as a comment on obesity, but decided against it for now. Maybe in a later version.
    A cartoon about the consumer society, excessive consumption in western societies, consumption as a symbol of freedom

    Cartoon reference number: env039

  • Environmental cartoon: a possible problem with progress

    Environment cartoon: The human race recklessly driving itself over the precipice

    Environmental cartoon

    A possible problem with progress – cartoon

    The human race ignoring the warning signs and recklessly carrying on and thus driving itself over the precipice and into the abyss – even though the warning signs are plain to see

    Cartoon reference number: env051
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  • Transport cartoon: traffic jam symbolising lack of progress

    transport cartoon - traffic at a standstill

    Transport system cartoon
    Environment cartoon

    A cartoon about the concept of progress
    Is (some) progress an illusion?
    Is (some) progress a good thing?

    Cars at a standstill in a traffic jam symbolising progress (or the lack of it) in transport planning and in the excessive use of cars as personal transport.
    It is also a cartoon about the philosophical question of whether progress is necessarily a good thing
    Cartoon reference number: env050

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    A more recent version of this cartoon can be found here

  • Desertification cartoon – desertification as a result of global warming

    Climate change cartoon - desertification

    An environmental cartoon about desertification
    An advancing desert as a result of climate change

    A cartoon showing a building that housed a campaign against global warming, with the building now being overtaken by a desert, showing the advancing desert and the failure of the campaign

    Cartoon reference number: env012

  • Environment cartoons: climate change denial cartoon

    global warming denial cartoon - camel at north pole

    Environment cartoons
    Climate change denial cartoon

    A cartoon about global warming statistics and their use in denying the existence of anthropogenic climate change

    Parts of the media, and some scientists, insist that climate change isn’t happening, despite the evidence (depicted as desert at the North Pole)
    Cartoon reference number: env003
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  • Environmental activism cartoon – rationalising apathy over environmental issues

    Inertia and apathy over environmental issues

    Environment cartoons
    Inertia and apathy over environmental issues

    Apathy or laziness preventing someone from taking action over environmental (or other) issues

    A cartoon about the way that many people aren’t motivated to act on environmental issues such as global warming
    Cartoon reference number: env004
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  • Global warming cartoons: the rising climate of climate change denial

    climate change cartoon - global warming cartoon

    Global warming cartoon
    The rising climate of climate change denial

    A cartoon about the increase in scepticism about the existence of climate change

    Cartoon reference number: env0812
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  • Cartoon about waste – escaping from waste in a rubbish skip (dumpster)

    Environment cartoon: escaping from a waste-filled consumer society in a rubbish skip

    Environment cartoon: waste in the consumer society

    A cartoon about waste disposal, the accumulation of waste in a modern consumer society, pollution

    A family escaping a land that is overflowing with rubbish, by rowing away in a rubbish skip.
    The land has become one giant rubbish tip or rubbish dump.
    Cartoon reference number: env067

    A colour cartoon similar to this one can be found here.

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  • Air pollution cartoon: a tree creating clear air in a polluted atmosphere

    Atmospheric pollution cartoon - how to breathe clean air in a polluted atmosphere

    Environmental cartoon: pollution cartoon.

    How to breathe clean air in a polluted atmosphere (by using oxygen generated by trees and other plants.

    A cartoon about pollution, clear air, trees as lungs of the world.

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    Original concept: 1991

    Cartoon reference number: env071
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  • The Tree Of Knowledge Discovering What Paper is Made From

    Cartoon: the tree of knowledge discovering that paper is made from wood

    Cartoon: the tree of knowledge reading a book, and discovering that paper is made from trees
    A cartoon about the saying ‘ignorance is bliss’

    A cartoon about the acquisition of knowledge and its possible unsettling consequences

    The cartoon can be interpreted as being about the fact that humans are aware of their own mortality due to their level of awareness
    Cartoon reference: env118
    Cartoon drawn: 1991

  • Transport cartoon: how to avoid traffic congestion using an suv or four wheel drive

    Transport cartoon - urban congestion cartoon

    Transport cartoon
    Urban traffic gridlock cartoon

    A cartoon showing the use of an suv, 4×4,  four wheel drive or Chelsea tractor to beat traffic jams or road congestion.

    Urban traffic flow cartoon
    Cartoon reference number: env047
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  • Trees as the lungs of the planet – cartoon

    trees as lungs of planet - environment cartoon

    Cartoon showing a tree as lungs.

    The cartoon uses the fact that lungs have a similar structure and appearance to trees, at least at the level of cartoon art.

    In the cartoon the branches of trees are likened to the bronchial tubes in lungs, with the windpipe as the tree’s trunk.

    Drawn: 2004

    Cartoon reference number: a778
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