There is no surprise that overpopulation is becoming a big problem, just like running out of resources for all that amount of people, but so many people refuse to take notice.
But, if we take a deeper look we will just see how much of a problem it actually is. That is the focus in these powerful photographs by environmental awareness platform Global Population Speak Out.
The photographs are part of a book titled “Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot,”.
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A huge wave full of trash in Java (Indonesia), the most populated island in the world.
Oregon (USA), The National Willamette forest that is 99% deforested.
Yellow River – Mongolia – so polluted that it’s almost impossible to breathe when you are near it.
California (USA), Ken River – oil field – exploited since 1899.
Fire at oil platform in Gulf of Mexico, April 2010.
A landscape in Bangladesh, full of trash.
A forest in Indonesian transformed into palm plantation.
Part of the Amazonian jungle in Brazil, burnt down to be “repurposed”.
Located in Germany this is the world’s biggest excavator, Bagger 288, used to extract coal in Tagebau Hambach strip mine.
Landfill in Accra – Ghana. Our electronic rubbish usually ends up in Third-World countries.
Mexico City landscape – the biggest city in the world, 20 million inhabitants.
An Albatross killed by excessive plastic ingestion in Midway Islands.
Greenhouses cover a landscape in Almeria – Spain.
Tar-rich zone in Alberta, Canada destroyed by mining and toxic wastes
Enormous iceberg melting near Svalbard island in Norway because of global warming.The Maldives are flooding because of the rising global warming and human action. They will sink in 50 years.
The Maldives are flooding because of the rising global warming and human action. They will sink in 50 years.
Mir mine – Russia. This gigantic hole is the world’s biggest diamond mine.
