Iceberg melting? Yes. Society’s acceptance and open-mindedness dripping away too? Yeah. We should be ashamed. How can we be so ignorant to society's biggest problem: climate change? I think Su Yu’s painting Iceberg Melting is fantastic. It highlights the problems within climate change. It highlights the ignorance our societies have kept and intertwined with our everyday, boring, and reckless lives. I mean come on, who sunbathes in yellow and in the Arctic? Must be freezing.
After some consideration, I'm reviewing the situation (totally not me quoting Fagin) and I think T.S. Elliot was right. We are suffering from a universal human weakness: our ignorance. Only a few in the diamond of the rough can be smart enough to stand. Humans make up problems so we can keep ignoring our biggest issue, climate change. It's like when you send a risky text to someone you fancy and all of a sudden you feel the need to mop your ceiling. Keep the ignorance flowing while making sure your ceiling sparkles. I'm all for cleanliness, but not when everyone is too busy mopping their ceilings rather than mopping the crap out of our oceans and skies.
This painting sells for around £30,000. That’s bonkers. Are people so desperate to buy such a painting so they look like they are “knowledgeable” on climate change? More people are bothered about the painting than what the painting represents, which is quite frankly sad. We see poor penguins jump to their deaths to avoid being on the iceberg when it melts. We see a lazy, idle lady on a tiger's skin – not only is that cruel to have as a carpet but it must look hideous in a modern living room. Like, if she was Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, I’d get it. But she’s not. Gaston is fake, but climate change isn’t. Don’t be the lazy, idle woman wearing ignorance and a terrible swimming suit. Be the reason penguins can be like Happy Feet and tigers like Tony – grrrrrrreat.
We need to stop climate change before it stops us. Even if we don’t do it for commercially happy animals. We don’t want to be the reason that generations can’t live on and experience life, do we?
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