There is nothing new about hearing that our environment and planet are both suffering extensively with over-polluting everyday. However, it is not the thought we get every time we are not recycling, building a house or the oil companies are looking to extract more oil.
Ever since the industrial revolution, humans have been keen on competing and digging out resources and in the process, there has been deforestation, oil spills, endangered animals and the loss of thousands of lives. Now, at the same time, know that being a vegan or buying a Tesla would not help the cause immediately, but it will get us somewhere. Beautiful islands like the Maldives, that we think of at the time of planning our exotic vacations, are not going to exist in 50 years, they will all sink.
This collection of photographs below is a powerful wake-up call to make us realize that how badly we have ruined our planet!
Surfing on a wave full of trash in Java (Indonesia), the world’s most populated island
National Willamette forest, Oregon (USA), 99% deforested
The Yellow river in Mongolia is so polluted that it’s almost impossible to breathe near it
Ken River oil field, California (USA) – exploited since 1899
Fire at oil platform in Gulf of Mexico, April 2010
Landscape full of trash in Bangladesh
Indonesian forest transformed into palm plantation
Part of the Amazonian jungle in Brazil, burnt down to be “repurposed”
World’s biggest excavator, Bagger 288, used to extract coal in Tagebau Hambach strip mine (Germany)
Landfill in Accra (Ghana). Our electronic rubbish usually ends up in Third-World countries
Mexico City landscape, 20 million inhabitants
Albatross killed by excessive plastic ingestion in Midway Islands (North Pacific)
Landscape covered in greenhouses , Almeria (Spain)
Tar-rich zone in Alberta, Canada destroyed by mining and toxic wastes
The Maldives are flooding because of global warming and human action. They will sink in 50 years
Mir mine, Russia. This gigantic hole is the world’s biggest diamond mine.
Enormous iceberg melting near Svalbard island in Norway
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