Overpopulation poster and T-shirts
Available for sale as T-shirts, hoodie jumpers and stickers. How to buy
The Task
To create a picture which would address the Earth’s overpopulation problem.
There are several reasons for the current rapid increase in population: medical advances, compulsory vaccination and improvements in sanitation, increase in agricultural productivity, fertility above the replacement level. The picture should concern the over-fertility.
The Solution
To make the image easy to use as a poster or to be printed on various surfaces including T-shirts, a single colour will be used. Also, written words should be avoided to make the picture understood worldwide without any additional modifications or translations.
The Result
Subject to the intended use, the picture may be available in any size on request.
Examples of T-shirts
27 April 2010
How to Buy
The design is available for sale as T-shirts, hoodie jumpers and stickers via RedBubble.com.
You can choose the colour and shape of the T-shirt (round neck, V-neck, long sleeve, girly fitted or hoodie). Also, the picture for the T-shirts comes in three different colours: yellow, white, or black:
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Some thoughts in the process
Global warming, climate change, CO2 emission, energy sources depletion, food shortage, resource wars, species extinction, waste management are not the problems, they are the symptoms of a problem — overpopulation. Sadly, today’s mankind is only content to address the consequences. Wide discussion of The Problem is not popular for a few reasons:
- Capitalism and many religions — the world’s biggest powers — do not want to get any decrease in consumption, demand and followers.
- Money can be made out of “going green” — by selling efficient light bulbs, eco cars, reusable shopping bags, solar panels, recycled paper and anything that looks like it is made of recycled materials... Money cannot be made out of lesser amount of buyers. Therefore, making business on reducing the pollution that the overpopulation produces will generate big and steady profits, fixing the overpopulation — won’t.
- “Not in my backyard” approach: people who could have given voice to the problem may be relying on population growth projections and thinking that the planet will not reach the limits of its capacity during their life time. Illogically, most individuals who ignore the overpopulation problem do have children on their own, so what about their children’s life time? Shall they see the “end” instead?
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