PICTURES OF OUR WORLD

(Image Source: Truth Out)

How do you raise people's awareness about the criminal destruction of life on today's planet? The easiest way is to simply show people.

View the articles and pictures below to see a real view of our world today.

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PICTURES OF ECOCIDE

Pushing Earth beyond its natural limits - in pictures (The Guardian, 4-14-15)

Overpopulation, overconsumption – in pictures (The Guardian, 4-1-15)

The two Guardian articles listed above show a picture of what human activity is doing to our planet.

These are pictures of ecocide, along with the effects of overpopulation and overconsumption.

‘Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.’ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

 

AN ISLAND OF GARBAGE IN THE PACIFIC, NOW WORLD'S LARGEST CONTINENT

Death and Life Today: Midway Film (World Future Fund)

Chris Jordan's "Midway Film" captures what human beings are doing to other forms of life.

For non-human life, this garbage island produced by human waste is a continent of death and torture.

Birds and other forms of life are being killed in vast numbers by plastic human trash. Check out the film.

 

FIRST WORLD CONSUMPTION TURNS THIRD WORLD INTO A NIGHTMARE

The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust (BBC, 4-2-15)

Hidden in an unknown corner of inner Mongolia, is a toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for smartphones, consumer gadgets and green tech.

Baotou is the largest industrial city in Inner Mongolia. Here Rare Earth complexes tower into the sky, and the grey horizon is covered with endless cooling towers and chimneys.

The clay sampled in the lake pictured above has tested positve for record levels of radiation.

 

KOYAANISQATSI AND THE QATSI FILMS

Koyaanisqatsi and Qatsi Film Trailers and Information (World Future Fund)

In the Hopi language, "Koyaanisqatsi" means unbalanced life.

The 1982 film, along with the sequels, are a visual poem of art and sound that paints a picture of today's unbalanced world.