Get Started by Brainstorming Ideas
To develop ideas for your artwork, you may wish to first perform some research on climate change on the internet or your local public library. It would be helpful to learn about carbon dioxide pollution (CO2), which causes climate change and results from the burning of fossil fuels. Fossil fuel-based CO2 enters the atmosphere when our cars burn gasoline or when natural gas is used to generate electricity at power plants. And did you know that methane emitted from belching cows also contributes to a warming of the atmosphere?
Solar panels and wind mills generate clean renewable energy (“green” energy), reducing our need for fossil fuels and lowering emissions of CO2. Also, carbon capture technologies can capture and store carbon dioxide emissions.
It will take time to transition away from the fossil fuels which drive our economy and for everyone to use products like electric vehicles which can be powered by renewable energy. Your artwork can help inspire citizens to think about how they can start making changes today.
Consider how climate change may impact the world in which we live, from its effects on creatures on the land and in the ocean, to the melting of glaciers, to the flooding of cities. Or perhaps you’ll wish to draw your own magical invention to remove CO2 or methane from the atmosphere. Your artwork can be hopeful, sad, funny, whatever you wish, as long as it relates to the theme. Here’s some articles about animals threatened by climate change for ideas: Save the Polar Bears, Save the Penguins and Save the Elephants.
