Ever since the 1800’s, human population has exploded from 1 to 8 billion people and growing, and the planet is simply not designed to house this amount of humans. The environment ends up taking a massive hit due to overpopulation. Mexico City is one example of an overcrowded place that has done major damage to the landscape surrounding it.
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, houses over four million people.
New Delhi in India tops 25 million.
Here’s electricity use in Los Angeles.
Humans are wasteful creatures. Look at all their waste produced by a Bangladeshi incineration plant.
Here’s a Canadian oil sands plant.
The surrounding ecology is impacted negatively by the oil sands development.
A field of stumps remains in a one time forest in Oregon after a dam is built.
Once covered in trees, this is now what a mountain in British Columbia looks like.
A massive diamond mine in Russia.
Oil pumping has killed this California plot of land.
A Brazilian barren wasteland is used for beefing up cattle.
Sickening amounts of smoke pumping out of power plants in England.
Major air traffic pollution right over London.
The over consumption tradition known as “Black Friday”.
Dumped tires in the Nevada desert with no care on environmental effects.
Sickening way to dispose of toxic chemicals like this appliance waste.
Speaks for itself.
Sickening how much “stuff” gets dumped in the ocean. A whole “garbage island” has even formed in the northern Pacific.
No concern for the animals that will end up eating this trash.
Human hunters will take them out if the pollution doesn’t.
The Amur tiger is endangered, yet is still being hunted.
Pollution caused shifts in weather patterns and as a result more ecological disasters occur.
This river in China (the Yellow River) reeks.
Global weather patterns shift and droughts become commonplace. The result is also wildfires like these that tore through Colorado.
Directly in the line of fire.
Ice caps and glaciers melt away at an incredible rate.
Ecosystems are ruined and animals such as the polar bear here in Norway end up starving to death.
Soon some island nations, like the Maldives will be underwater due to the melting of the polar ice caps.
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