paris climate change agreement
Dec
14
2015
A political cartoon published December 14, 2015, depicts a suited man standing in floodwater declaring that regulating carbon emissions will cost jobs and hurt the economy. Nearby a second man struggles in the water shouting save my job while a house and polar bear are partially submerged. The image appeared around the time of the Paris climate agreement negotiations. It visually links opposition to emissions rules with the consequences of unchecked global warming such as rising seas. The composition places the economic argument in the context of visible flooding to question its priority.
