Our lust and desire for smartphones, and next-generation technologies of all kinds, are fueling conflict and loss of life the Congo.


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Fish die-off at Redondo beach, California

With our population already at 7 billion people and over consumption rising at a terrifying rate, this is something serious that many people have a hard time picturing. The truth is shocking, and when I look at these photos I can only imagine all the heart-wrenching images of environmental destruction that go unseen by most humans, the scenes which lay unvisited in the mountains or in the hearts of what were once forests.

Deforestation

See previous points about deforestation, also keep in mind that the prices demanded for exploitation of Federal/public lands is pennies on the dollar for the ecological costs and profit the companies make. They demand so little that the Navajo were able to sue them for exploiting their lands and not returning even close to market price.

The tar sands are one of the most dirty sources of oil, and the extraction of this oil has polluted both the water and the land locally in Alberta. The fact that this project was OK’d by any environmental regulator is shocking, but this becomes less shocking when you realize that Alberta literally sold their regulator posts to the oil industry.

The Yangtze River, China turning red.

Whether due to microorganisms or industrial pollution: this is certainly a bad sign for the ecosystem. There is reason to believe that when enough small ecosystems collapse, the global biosphere will become destabilized and mass extinction will intensify.

Cheap fossil energy won’t last forever, and it certainly wasn’t free

In both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems: plastic moves up. The tiny and not so tiny pieces are eaten by animals which are themselves then eaten: it moves up the food chain. With all the micro plastics in our oceans and water: do we really think this isn’t reaching us?

Port au Prince, Haiti

Mexico City, Mexico urban sprawl

Mexico City is also one of the most populated cities in the world, and its expansion has wiped out natural ecosystems for many kilometers. Together, this has led to very bad air quality, a continuing concern for Mexican health authorities.

Kowloon City,Hong Kong

Hong Kong is still one of the most densely populated cities on Earth with 6,650 people per square kilometer. When Kowloon City still stood, it housed 33,000 people in a single city block.

Plastic has permeated our oceans, with over 270 million metric tons of in the ocean there is potentially more plastic than fish in the oceans right now. This becomes even more believable when we consider that up to 85% of fisheries are being over exploited.

Deforestation Of British Colombian canada

Canada

Bangladesh

Accra,Ghana

Fire at oil platform in Gulf of Mexico, April 2010

The Maldives are flooding because of global warming and human action. They will sink in 50 years.

Enormous iceberg melting near Svalbard island in Norway