19 shocking images that show our footprint on earth

The OVER book covers topics such as overdevelopment, overpopulation, and overproduction. Images of him have the potential to ignite conversations on the topic on a large scale.1. Willamette National Forest, Oregon (USA), deforested. Only 1% of the original valleys and forests in this area have survived development, urbanization, fires and the impact of agriculture intact. 2. Garbage in Bangladesh, one of the many landscapes that we should not get used to.3. Mir mine in Russia. Photographed with Google Earth, it is the largest diamond mine in the world.Four. Java (Indonesia), the most populated island in the world. Indonesian surfer Dede Surinaya catches a wave that washes away a slum of garbage.5. Indonesia. The increase in the demand for biofuels means deforestation. Natural habitats are transformed into plantations, to cover the needs of the industry.6. Tagebau Hambach, Germany. The largest excavator in the world in mining works the ground to turn it into an open pit mine to extract coal.7. Maldiva’s Islands. One of the most vulnerable points to climate change in the world and threatened by the rise in sea level. There are forecasts that the island will last 50 years before disappearing.8. Garbage dump in Accra (Ghana). Large amounts of waste from computers and other electronic devices end up in landfills in developing countries. 9. Amazon Rainforest, Brazil. Burnt expanse of the Amazon jungle, home to thousands of species of animals.10. Mongolia. A shepherd covers his mouth in front of the Yellow River because of the bad smell it gives off. It is the second longest in the country and is polluted in almost three quarters.11. Almeria (Spain). Photograph of a ‘field’ of greenhouses12. Ken River, in California (USA). Oil field that has been exploited from 1899 to today.13. Japan. Images of the extinction work during the fire at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. In 2013, two years after the accident, the plant was still dumping radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean.14. North Eastland Land, in the Svalbard region (Norway). Image of ice melting effect of changes in the arctic caused mainly by the accumulation of greenhouse gases.fifteen. Mexico DF. Overpopulation16. Gulf of Mexico. Aerial view of the BP ‘Deepwater Horizon’ oil rig fire. The explosion, in April 2010, caused the spill into the sea of ​​five million barrels of crude17. Alberta (Canada). Aerial view of an area rich in tar. Mining industry jobs and tailings of toxic waste are so plentiful, they can even be seen from space.18. China. Space dedicated entirely to crop fields. “There is no place for nature,” the authors of the book point out.19. Midway Islands, in the North Pacific. An albatross died from eating too much plastic,

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