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The image above is an example of environmental visual rhetoric. Obviously the level of inappropriateness is extreme, but the image clearly shows the harm that humans are doing to the earth. The figures of a man and a woman can be seen. The man (civilization) can be seen sexually assaulting the female figure (nature). Civilization and industrialization have violently stripped Earth of her natural resources, much like a vulgar act of indecency. Much of this reminds me of "Front Lines," a poem by Snyder that is featured in his book Turtle Island. The poem, much like the image, powerfully illustrates environmental damage by suggesting a sexual assault on Earth.
Technology aids in creating impacting images that can be widely distributed throughout the world in order to provide others with information so that they may venture out and reverse the damaging effects we have done.
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