When I was a child,
this painting by George Seurat, Bathing at Asnières, fascinated me. It looked idyllic. But I wondered at the chimneys spewing dark smoke in the background. Seurat's painting is from 1883-84. It may serve as a reminder that humanity has been releasing industrial smoke and other noxious fumes into the atmosphere for a very long time. However, now we are doing it at an ever-increasing rate, and there are just more and more of us humans doing the polluting.
Frankly, I find it totally baffling that some people can say that we are
not affecting the atmosphere, when the evidence that we are doing so is right before our eyes.
Ann
