MICK RAWPORT
CLIMATE CHAOS
The Sun and the Moon looking down fondly at Planet Earth: engulfed by on-going and more frequent disasters like wildfires, flooding, and global scorching.
Don’t mess with Mother Earth!
She does devastating things when she gets mad and will wreak havoc when offended, or when her delicate balance is upset. You do not want to hear this Scream of Nature.
50 Ways to F**K the Planet
MELTING ICE
Time is running out for the Third Pole. Ice of the Third Pole region—the Tibetan Plateau—is melting fast. Glaciers of the Himalayas are in meltdown mode, triggered by CO2 emissions and by a rain of black soot from fossil fuels in both China and India. This meltdown threatens the water supply for over 1.8 billion people downstream on major rivers sourced in Tibet.
Time is running out for the North and South Poles.
‘Arctic’ means ‘with bears’. ‘Antarctic’ means ‘without bears’ (just penguins). And all these species at risk because of melting sea-ice. Polar bears are vanishing. Penguin chicks have only a 10-percent survival rate (down from 50 percent). Polar meltdown will lead to catastrophic sea-level rise.
MAJOR EARTH PROBLEMS
Cracked Earth, Loss of Soil Fertility:
Feeding 8 billion people is a tall order and millions go hungry today due to climate chaos conditions that result in forced migration of climate refugees. Top-soil fertility is under severe threat from natural disasters, soil erosion, poor soil management and over-grazing. Increasingly, farmers rely on artificial fertilizers to replace lost nutrients, when, for instance, megadams block the passage of nutrient-rich sediment downstream.
To Bee or not to Bee? That is the urgent question. The survival of bees is entwined with the survival of humanity itself. Around the world, bees are vanishing. Mystery Bee Die-offs are under way for reasons that we do not fully understand, but are most likely human-driven. No bees means no crop pollination, meaning no food, meaning we all starve to death.
EXTINCTION is a big word. Biodiversity loss is a huge problem in today’s world. And it is largely human-driven. Here, highlighting two species on the brink of extinction: rhino-horn and tiger bone are used as bogus ‘cures’ in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The witch-doctor figure in the tiger-skin outfit is shown brewing up TCM Endangered-Species Soup.
MARINE DISASTERS
The Ocean is Broken
And who’s going to fix it?
Around 70 percent of our planet is Ocean, which is under deep threat from many directions: acidification, pollution, over-fishing, illegal fishing, the list goes on. If the Ocean dies, we die. Every second breath you take comes courtesy of the ocean, via minute phytoplankton that produces oxygen.phytoplankton that produces oxygen.
Currently, only a paltry 3 percent of world’s Ocean is protected. A UN-based initiative aims to protect 30 percent by the year 2030, but that is a big stretch because of the massive scale involved, and because marine-protected regions are magnets for poachers.
Oil-spills and gas-spills from tankers are devastating for an entire nation and its coastal ecosystems. And recovery can take decades.
CORAL BLEACHING
Coral reefs count for less than 2 percent of the Ocean, but a whopping 25 percent of fish live in or near reefs for protection from predators. Bleached coral means dead coral. The coral is dying from rising ocean temperatures and other factors. Some marine scientists warn that by 2050 there may be no coral eco-systems left.
Photographer: mick rawport
IG: rawport77
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Model: Anastasia @asiamint
Model: Anna @anna_anya1
Model: Maria @ta_samaya_mery_kle
Makeup Artist: Damian Black
IG: damianblackart
Model: Kate = Moon @itskateadchara Niki = Sun @niki_meowxo
Model: Cara @cara.pin
Model: Kanokprankwai @kanokwanpraix
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