A Short letter to European Leaders - Carbon Pollution.....

A Short letter to the European leaders - who are making decisions about Carbon Pollution 

past art works relating to this blog)

Dear European Leaders, 

Displacement of The Innocent- 
Mixed media, yvonne forster

At this significant moment in human history, surely, we all must consider the disastrous effects that climate change will bring to all life forms on our Planet. And ultimately, the burden of such devastating effects will be carried by our children and grand children.

There will come a point of no return.This realisation should drive each one of us to seriously make a stand.To consider it our moral duty to protect, overriding the immoral forms of excessive human consumption. What we decide now impacts future generations. I implore you to END the devastating affects of Carbon Pollution.And the knock on consequences.We have laws for many issues.... let us make laws to protect the natural world - Our only home.Please bring an end to carbon pollution.(revised)

 The evocative quote below poignantly reflects the underlying reasons behind the current dilemma we all face ...climate catastrophe.

In 1984, a warning from the UN Director of Environment at the Geneva Conference included this quote in his speech...

Only after the last tree is felled
Only after the last river is poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Only then will you realise that money cannot be eaten- 

If a Tree Falls....Charcoal and Pastel, yf  2012/2

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, in a letter to A.S. Suvorin on October 18, 1888, was quoted as saying:  

"A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples’ character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilisation nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe...What a terrible future!"

http://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/news/14246721-the-history-of-deforestation-in-quotes-from-leaders-around-the-world

Beautiful image by Indigenous artist - so connected to the natural world
At the Eden Project Biome 2015

Yvonne Forster -(Remain in Europe), supporter, United Kingdom