by gary cook RI
Ink, watercolour and charcoal
h: 29 w: 39 d: 3 (cms).
These are the words written around the edges of the painting:
"BP intends investing £3bn in renewables by 2025. Over the same time period it will spend £53bn on fossil fuel exploration and production. Oil and gas contribute 19,000,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide to the planet each year. BP's revenue in 2019 was £208bn. It aims to increase oil and gas production by 20% over the next ten years, yet intends reaching net zero emissions by 2050. The world's oil companies invest 1% of their budgets in clean energy. They're knowingly burning us alive."
If the oilmen in suits were physically setting fire to our forests there would be uproar and strenuous efforts made to stop them. But they are doing it more indirectly and subtly so that we hardly notice that it's happening. But it really is. Our woodlands are burning up and so are we. The shocking thing about the oil industry's actions is that it has known for years what the outcome of burning fossil fuels would be on the planet. Sadly, profits trump that knowledge.
£695
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by gary cook RI
Ink, watercolour and charcoal
h: 87 w: 69 d: 3 (cms).
A beautiful drooping ash in the lane. There are 1,058 different species of bats to mammals, lichen to fungi dependent in some way on ash. Dieback disease has now covered the whole country and we are predicted to slowly lose most of these lovely trees.
£1950
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by gary cook RI
Ink, watercolour and charcoal
h: 27 w: 39 d: 3 (cms).
Sunset on an evening walk
£675
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