Cartoonists use humour to tackle climate change

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Working with cartoons can help to bring the message in a humorful way to the public. On my professional work at Mileunet Foundation in the Netherlands we are quit familiar with the power of cartoons. We use them frequently in our communication activities. See these free weekly changed tips about energysaving at home.

But all over the world cartoonist make their own view of all kind of issues. Recently a competition was held by the Ken Sprague Fund Around 150 artists from more than 50 countries submitted entries. The results, says John Green, secretary of the fund that was set up in memory of cartoonist Ken Sprague, were "bitingly satirical, outrageously funny or exceedingly bitter, and even fatalistic". None were neutral or indifferent, he says, while few took the subject lightly. Read whole article

So if you think that cartoons about climate change could be in poor taste, look away now. Look here for a nice slide-show with 19 nice cartoons.