Smog over Almaty, Kazakhstan
The Aral Sea turned into a desert over 20 years.
A boy walks out of the sea while removing oil spilled in Brazil in October, 2019.
Toxic blue-green algae caused by sugar plant waste in Florida, USA
The Margala Hills in Islamabad, Pakistan, are barely visible.
This place used to have clear water with fish and turtles in it.
Deforestation in Bolivia. Woods are cleared for sugarcane fields.
Smog in Beijing, China
The world’s largest wetlands at Pantanal, Brazil are burning. This is threatening wildlife and producing harsh smoke.
A leafless forest caused by acid rains near Norilsk, Russia
This river turned bright red due to pollution.
The Salton Sea in California, USA, killed 97% of the fish living in it over the course of 10 years.
A sculpture made of trash
Major coral bleaching at the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, due to climate change
Every year small farmers in Brazil burn about 500,000 hectares of rainforest.
Not overpopulation, consumption. If every country in the world consume as much as the US, we would need four planet Earths to fulfil our needs. On the other side of the globe, people living on a dollar per day.
Sure, because their third-world countries are over-populated and are collapsing under their own weight. Don't get me wrong, North America is on the way down as well, mostly due to mismanagement, but 1.35 billion Indians? It's no wonder they live on a dollar a day.