Environmental degradation and biodiversity extinction are serious problems. If you still don’t know what they mean, then it’s a shame. If you do, then you know the kind of shit we are getting ourselves into. And mind you, it’s scary. Scary as hell!
These 26 pictures are a clear proof of what I’m trying to say.
1. A bird’s eye view of the overdeveloped metropole of Mexico City, which has more than 20 million inhabitants.
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2. Poachers brutally murdered this elephant and left his body to rot.
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3. A grazing rainforest for the goats now in smoke.
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4. London air traffic trails polluting the horizon.
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5. A cargo delivering oil-sand for processing, which will be the source of energy in future.
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6. Stench of t he Yellow River in Inner Mongolia has left herd farmers breathless.
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7. Bangladesh’s waste incineration plant and its surroundings.
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8. There is a relative rise in wild fires due to climate change. This one is a still from Colorado.
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9. Mining of oil sands in Alberta, Canada, has left these scars.
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10. This is what downtown Los Angeles looks like in the night. Try calculating the energy demands.
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11. To make a dam, they chain-sawed the trees.
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12. In order to have a richly filled- dinner table in Almeria, Spain, they littered the entire area with greenhouses.
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13. Showing off a poached Siberian tiger skin! #Disturbing
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14. Largest diamond mine in the world – Mir Mine, Russia. This is as scary as it gets.
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15. This is what happens when we litter:
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16. New Delhi from a bird’s eye. Over 22 million inhabitants. We are in big, big trouble.
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17. Maldives is threatened by rising sea levels.
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18. Tech junk that’s never going to biodegrade. #SorryMotherEarth!
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19. Land gone bald a.k.a. deforestation.
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20. This is what deserts of Nevada look like!
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21. A burning power station near Fukushima that went unnoticed and unextinguished.
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22. A polar bear starved to death in Svalvard, Norway. Homeless and dead. All because of melting polar ice caps.
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23. Overexploitation in an oilfield in California.
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24. Melting ice cap = Waterfall. And not a pretty one.
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25. Air contamination thanks to Lignite power plants.
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26. A surfer in Java, Indonesia, riding waves of filth.
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Wake up, people! We have to fix these now if not sooner!
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