Today, we are excited to share artwork by one of Bio4Climate’s board members. Susan Farist Butler’s exhibit, “Gaia Song: Seeking Equilibrium,” was featured on the Bio4Climate website in 2023, and it takes readers on a journey through essays, articles, and paintings about climate. Keep reading to read part of the artist statement for Map of the Devastation of the Amazonian Rainforest.
Because of enormous clear cutting in northeast Amazonian rain forest, rainfall has decreased by 20% in the south and east of the rainforest. The RED on the map shows where there is drought, desiccation, wildfire, savannah and desertification. Those places were recently rain forest.
We must protect the Amazonian Rainforest. Without it, the global climate and weather system will collapse. If the Amazon becomes the Sahara, we are cooked.
Posted: December 6, 2025