Political Art: Frog Soup

Continuing my re-post of overtly political art in the run-up to the November 5, 2024 election:
Frog Soup 11 x 11-inch acrylic painting on primed illustration board mounted on wood cradle.

Yes, I know the frogs-in-the-pot story is an urban myth. Yet it's still a great visual metaphor for the state of public awareness regarding the boiling hot water in.

In a special report in BioScience The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth a consortium of climate scientists state, “We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis.”

They're alarmed to the point of panic - note the words "irreversible" "global emergency" and "unpredictable" about the rapid changes all across the Earth — far beyond the nastiest predictions of even a few years ago: the approaching collapse of the Atlantic Ocean’s currents; acceleration of warming beyond previous forecasts; shocking decline in wildlife populations; burning down of the Amazonian and Australian rain forests, etcetera ad nauseam.

The mainstream media gives superficial lip service to "climate change", yet avoids and downplays the brutal severity of what is happening all around us, critical news impacting our immediate future, our children’s future, and that of most life on Earth. You would hardly know we're in the process of killing every wild organism on the planet, converting the biosphere into a sterile, technocratic monoculture that will no longer support complex life, including human beings.

Remember: As POTUS, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords. Do you believe the billionaire tech bros who back Trump / Vance - the Elon Musks, Peter Thiels, Larry Ellisons, etc. - will lead the corporate pivot to sustainable practices that don't fit with their model of financial and political gain?