The human population is responsible for a mass amount frightening damage to Earth. These images will shock and disgust you.
Tortoise Trapped By Plastic
Turtle Trapped In Plastic Waste Couldn't Grow
Koala Lost Her Home
Bird In Oil Spill
Fake Hong Kong Skyline For Tourists
Stork Trapped In Plastic
He Spends Each Morning Looking For Recyclable Plastic That He Can Sell For 35 Cents Per Kilo To Help His Family
Oiled Penguins
Seal's Nose Trapped In Plastic Waste
Boy Swimming In Polluted Water In India
Child Drinks Water From Stream In Fuyuan County, Yunnan Province
Suffering Seal Not Safe In Its Own Habitat
Worker Cleans Away Dead Fish At A Lake In Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province
Man Cleans Up Oil Spill In Dalian Port, Liaoning
Girl Walks Through Smog In Beijing, Where Small-Particle Pollution Is 40 Times Over International Safety Standard
Child Swims In A Polluted Reservoir, Pingba
Boy Swims In Algae-filled Water, Qingdao, Shandong
Great Wall Of China, Shame
A Mute Swan Builds A Nest Using Plastic Garbage
Surfing On A Wave Full Of Trash In Java (Indonesia), The World’s Most Populated Island
Ken River Oil Field, California (USA) – Exploited Since 1899
Residents Look At A Heavily Polluted River, Zhugao, Sichuan Province
Landscape Full Of Trash In Bangladesh
Landfill In Accra (Ghana). Our Electronic Rubbish Usually Ends Up In Third-world Countries
Plastic Bag Floats In The Sea Off The Philippines. Ocean Plastic Has Turned Up Literally Everywhere - In The Deep Sea And Buried In Arctic Ice
Frog In Polluted Water
Recycle; most especially plastics and glass. It could be done and it would make quite a difference. Of course, we would have to become a far more responsible species... and it might cost a little more time and effort than tossing water bottles out the car window.
What we lack is leadership that doesn't prefer profit and politics over common sense.
this is what several of the messages in that other thread were getting at-- that every technological step forward brings with it a greater step backwards in terms of consequences.
one small example-- plastic recycling for example is in rough waters right now. due to very low oil prices, the costs of plastic recycling are around equal to the profits... or even more.
we are years and years behind where we needed to be with green energy and pollution control, and of course, every country has their own opinion on the matter which usually relates to their economic priorities. it's a total mess, with the probability of it being 'fixed' on the global scale pretty much laughably unlikely.
As a species, we are the house divided and that's exactly the way we are kept.