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Decades from now
When the birds are all gone
When their bodies have decayed
The waste of this generation
Will remain
Is this for posterity?
Is this our legacy?
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This was inspired by the film, Midway. www.midwayfilm.com/
It is a touching documentary about the Midway island that is home to 1.5 million albatrosses and many other species of wildlife. However, the island is covered in 20 tons of plastic waste. The plastics are from the Pacific Garbage Patch, estimated to be twice the size of the United States. The plastic waste, discarded from our daily lives and washed into the ocean, are now found in the stomach of many dead animals. One in three baby albatrosses living on Midway Island dies from plastic ingestion. 5 tons of plastic find their way into these baby birds ever year.
While watching the film, all I could think of was how the plastics will still be there when the corpses of the dead baby birds are long gone, and how the future generations won't look up to see a sky full of birds, but look down to see a land filled with waste. I hope we have more that just trash as our legacy to the future.
There are simple things you can do to help reduce this problem:
- Recycle. Sounds simple but means so much. By recycling, you are not only preventing the plastic trash from being put into a landfill or dumped into the ocean, you are also reducing the need to create new plastic from petroleum and all of the damages that comes with mining for oil.
- Don't litter. It's really not hard to walk a few extra steps to make sure the trash goes into the can instead of just throwing it on the ground where it will be washed into the drains and rivers, which eventually lead to the ocean. Such simple action can save countless tons of plastic from ending up in the stomachs of baby birds.
- Go for biodegradable products. It's not a widely available option yet, but more and more products are made with biodegradable material. When given the option, choose the right one, and avoid products that have a lot of unnecessary packaging. Instead of buying 40 bottles of water, buy one long lasting water bottle and reuse it 100 times over. This way you'll save time and money as well as the environment.
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Comments: 659
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What makes this even sadder is that the plastic bits within the bird appear to be children's board game pieces.
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I've seen that documentary and Chris Jordan's photography on the matter. Such a terrible fate for these birds as well as many other ocean dwellers. Your art on the subject captures the issue very well and inspires me to work harder.
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Holy shit... Your artwork(both the drawings and the words in the description) are- are- ... They're beautifully made, but contain such sad, and depressing topics... I love it!
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This reminds me of an amazing but horrible, short documentary, where they were visiting an island with so much trash that, when they cut open a dead bird, his body was completely filled with trash.
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I think this is what I want to do with my life... save the world, remove the plastics. I'm already on a school on which I can choose to make biodegradable polymers and plastics, and I think this is highly needed in our society ... look at what we do ;_;
Thank you for this beautiful message ...
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i have seen pictures like this online, its terrible what people today do, we need art like this to show whats going on, humans just like to sugar-coat the horrible things they have done to the environment, so they don't feel like monsters themselves. we need to show the world what littering can do. just leaving a plastic toy on the side of the road could kill an unaware animal. throwing away just one plastic bag could kill a turtle. this is amazing and i hope to see more art like this in the future!
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im a heartless person and im crying. good job! so beutiful and sad
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Deep, I hope to see more like this in the future
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Your illustrating it is very interesting!!!amazing!!!can you watch my works?I will be very happy!
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I love the space and contrasting colors you incorporated into this piece! your artwork has encouraged me to be more aware of environmental problems and take action. thanks so much!
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I've heard of this guy that designed this thing. He has a utube video, I think it's called the pacific cleanup, he designed a large platform or something that is built perfectly to clean up all this waste. It is designed perfectly to capture even the smaller fragments , also without capturing fish. It's really inspiring but it's going to take a lot of time and money to get in action. Unfortunately we still have to stop the creation of this waste and that's another story. Close to where I live on the western side of Vancouver island lots of this stuff, including the debris from the earth quack in Japan is still washing up, it also endangers the animals here. I've heard sad stories of people finding this boat and going all the way over there to return it to this Japanese family that had lost it 3 years before. There's tons of stuff just floating out there.
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I watched the Midway after seeing this picture and it really broke my heart. We will cause the demise of our own planet, if we don't change our behavior and stop the ignorance. Pictures like this one and films like that one might help changing people's view of things.
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wow (read beginning of description) ik what you mean thats just so sad :c
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Hi. Sorry for bothering. I'm from Viet Nam. I'm doing a project about pollution. May I use this work of yours for our poster?
Thank you.
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Oh my you have seen the photos of those poor birds as well!
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Easy to say, but try telling third world countries to stop dumping plastic waste, hell try telling that to the plastic corprations themselves to look for plastic substitutes.
One million helping to stop the problem is pointless if the remaining seven billion don't give a damn, it's the harsh reality, this will all come back to bite us when the plant's rotation suddenly slows/ and or the currents slow triggering a new ice, and or messing up earth's gravitational pull, and this would happen so earth can avoid a tipping point that can be triggered if the layer of dry ice beneath that of fresh water melts, leaving the planet with enough green house gases to turn it ino another Venus rendering the planet lifeless forever in the process, and it's all thanks to human greed and arrogance.
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as a practicing druid; love you keep bring it for our mother, by standing for more then yourself, you become more than yourself... and you're great!
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Man, you have really powerful art on here.
One can tell you have a deeper than surface brain at work.
Looooooooooove it.
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I really like how you get your message across. You make it so clear and yet graceful? (I need to get all of the adjectives in my vocabulary straight) at the same time. For me, it's a very surreal way to get the message across, so as opposed to long, drawn-out articles (my creative brain doesn't like those), the way you put it brings out more emotion and understanding than any of those journalists' phrasing. I've always been a "Save Mother Earth" person, but I hope that this helps people who, like me, prefer to see things through art, and not just skip those long articles because they don't have the time or intelligence, or whatever other excuse they use. Please continue working hard on your art.
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idk why, but the first idea i got from this is wow, birds are so stupid
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Birds are not "stupid". Birds are what birds are --birds. If you fell off a cliff and died from the impact maybe birds would think "wow, humans are so stupid! Why didn't he just fly?" I'm just kidding 
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this is just what my sporadic brain came up with.
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Earth Day is coming, and my mom like your artwork a lot (me too). She wants to buy some prints (like this one, and Countdown) to put up in her workplace, but doesn't know how (like how to purchase the art). If anyone here knows, could you tell me? I'd really appreciate it.
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I don't think there are any prints of the artwork which you desire, but you can look around here and see if something catches your interest, besides those two.
yuumei.deviantart.com/prints/
Those are all of yuumei's prints that are available for sale, I believe.
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Oh, okay. Well, thanks for saying so.
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