James Hrynyshyn is a freelance science journalist based in western North Carolina, where he tries to put degrees in marine biology and journalism to good use.
Some guy named Ken Sprague had a thousand pounds of British currency to throw around each year so he decided, for the second year in a row, to hold a competition for editorial cartoons dealing with "climate change and other threats to the environment." Not too surprisingly, many of the entries aren't so much funny as poignant reminders of human stupidity. The Independent offers a slide show of the two dozen best. Here's my favorite by Ukraine's Igor Kondenko. It manages to incorporate a variety of ideas, including a dig at the American can-do spirit, in one simple image:
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Thanks for that. As you say, poignant.
I was struck by the quality, but also by the high number of entries from the old Soviet bloc (in particular the Ukraine).
Even Iran has some entries in both links. But there are none from North America, which surprised me.
Good post.
Posted by: S2 | July 8, 2008 6:38 PM
Thanks!
Posted by: Igor Kondenko | July 29, 2008 6:55 AM