25 Powerful Pieces Of Street Art That Tell The Painful Truth
The world is not in a good shape, and these street artist are here to say it. Using the urban walls as their canvas, ROA, Blu, Banksy and many others are reaching out to the masses. It’s a good tool to alert a widespread audience. It is estimated that more than half the people in the world are living in urban areas. In Asia, many city agglomerations (Osaka, Manila, Jakarta, Seul and so on) reach over 20 million in population and are slated to cross 40 million in the near future. The message is thus delivered to a wide audience and is hard to ignore due to its usually jarring appearance.
And the people do have things to worry about. Climate change is only denied by the most recalcitrant of critics. Water pollution is getting over a million people a year ill in India and air pollution is causing around a million premature deaths in China per year. The acidification of oceans (due to high CO2 content) is threatening our food supply (as well an sea animals in general(, and acid rain has a similar affects on soil. Plants also suffer from smog and tropospheric ozone it contains – and O3 is a troublemaker by itself while it remains at ground level, causing all sorts of toxic reaction with other materials. And, of course, there’s the urbanization’s impact on forests and nature, animal rights violations in fur and meat industry, and so forth.
Small wonder that these people take up the spray can.
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I Don’t Believe In Global Warming
Image credits: Banksy
World Is Going Down The Drain
Image credits: Pejac
Lets Keep The Plants Alive
Image credits: Natalia Rak
Urbanization Is Killing Us
Image credits: Blu
Killing Ourselves
Image credits: Pejac
The Clock is Ticking
Image credits: Blu
Park(ing)
Image credits: Banksy
I Remember When This Was All Trees
Image credits: Banksy
Born To Be Wild
Image credits: July
Animals in Zoos
Image credits: ROA
Eat Yourself
Image credits: Unknown
The World is Burning
Image credits: Eduardo Kobra
We’re Eating The Earth
Image credits: Nemo
Eating The Earth
Image credits: Blu
Earth Is Being Killed
Image credits: madeinpain.wordpress.com
The Truth
Image credits: GroovyMutation
Locked Up Animals
Image credits: ROA
Animal Cruelty Is Everywhere
Image credits: ROA
Earth-Pie of Trash
Image credits: Blu
Ice Ice Baby
Image credits: Pobel
If Only We Could See The Sky And Not The Buildings
Image credits: Banksy
Poor Earth
Image credits: Sejak
Nothing To Eat
Image credits: Banksy
New McDonalds Is Opening
Image credits: reddit
When Life Gives You Oil Spills Make Molotovs
Image credits: Priest
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