Barry Wilkinson: Futuristic Impression of Greenhouse Effect

Artist: Barry Wilkinson
1923 -
Nationality: British
Artwork Year: 1992
Image Size: 13.75 by 12 inches
Overall Size: 16.15 by 13.5 inches
Medium: Water Color on Water Color Paper

Industrialized nations are the heaviest drains on the Earth's non-renewable energy sources. Such countries produce disproportionately higher levels of industrial pollution in the forms of toxic wastes and carbon monoxide emissions. These nations also upset the planet's heat balance by burning greater amounts of fossil fuels which release more carbon dioxide into the environment. The result is the greenhouse effect, a condition with potentially calamitous consequences: melting of the polar ice-caps and rising sea levels; disruptive changes in climatic patterns. Planet Earth has a natural antidote to combat these environmental hazards -- its tropical and temperate rainforests. Moisture from Brazil's foliage-dense Amazonian ecosystem affects weather patterns from southern South America to northeastern North America and western Europe. Each day solar energy equaling the heat of more than two million hydrogen bombs beats down upon the Amazon basin. Its lush vegetation speeds evaporation and cooling of the soils. Once the rainforests are gone, there will be no moist, verdant shield to protect South America -- and the world -- from the hot, dry climate which is sure to develop. In the past two decades, an area of rainforest twice the size of California has been burned, and the practice of deforestation continues unabated.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the Great Britain 33p Greenhouse Effect stamp issued September 15, 1992.

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