Carbon emission lighting a match on penguins’ ice floe, they are surrounded by waters polluted by oil spills. The penguins are in distress, they are worried, scared and want to escape but don’t know where to go.

Illustrated for The New York Times’ opinion article Tales of a Warmer Planet by Paul Smiths. Inspired by a phrase in the article ‘Erasing cold-loving species and habitats from the planet.’