After seeing a political cartoon earlier in the week, I decided to look into more of them and see if there were many. I found one on a website I had visited previously that was very powerful. The cartoon shows two kids on a foreign continent (probably Africa from the description next to the picture), and a hand is reaching toward the kids, offering them a coin. The lower part of the cartoon shows a knife cutting into the innards of the continent and removing a large amount of wealth. This cartoon had a description off to the side, which discussed that as a nation, we put about $90 billion into Africa. In turn, we remove $400 billion in research profits. This is a jab at the social sustainability of relations with foreign countries, and the environmental sustainability of basically exploiting a country for all its resources. Again this cartoon can be interpreted many ways, and that is what makes it so powerful.
I chose this media because after finding a cartoon earlier in the week, I was curious to see other cartoons on sustainability. I was very excited to further explore this form of media, and I was excited about my findings. I intend to use a political cartoon in some form for my sustainability project, and this cartoon, being an example of social sustainability, could be an option for that. I also like to see the many interpretations of cartoons and analyze them from many points of view. In my experience, every cartoon can potentially be received differently by each person who sees it, and that creates many discussions and points to consider.
Source: http://earthsharing.org/gclid=Cj0KEQjwwoLHBRDD0beVheu3lt0BEiQAvU4CKnoSQ0GUQxj0zc3ssY94TBZwYWcNivJTv3YFHkg9sOQaAkJw8P8HAQ
(cartoon toward bottom of page next to section titled "Poverty")
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