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The easiest ways to prove reality to skeptics is through visual evidence. Climate change and the impact of humans on the environment is better seen from a high view. We can’t see from any better vantage point than pictures taken from orbit.
The images selected on We Heart World are not only compelling, but are also stark representations of “proof” that many require. Some will still say “cycles”. Others will say “natural progression”. These images paint a dramatic picture of the effects by contrasting the recent past with the current situation, environmentally.
The world is changing. It has gone beyond the perceptions of the skeptics who say it’s “a cycle” and demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that humans are having a dramatic and negative impact on the world.
Yesterday, we covered UNEP and their Atlas of Our Changing Environment. Today, we took a look at nearly 200 of the hotspots listed and found the 11 most compelling image sets that depict the world through satellite images the way that it was and the way that it is now. Some of these images were extremely dramatic with major changes apparent in a very short period of time.
Story continues at We Heart World about Environmental Hotspots.
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Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Posted in: Environmental, Hot Topics, We Heart World
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September 7th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
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September 7th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
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September 8th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Brazilian (and neighbors’) Amazonian devastation is an example that encompasses all the above. Numbers and detailed information can be found in IBGE and INPE-Brazil, inter alia.
Deforestation becomes a weird business to all, mankind included.
This should be subject of further studies, but the area is so large that a sample here and there does not suffice. The degrees and variations are quite the same but widespread.
Of recent a series of hydroelectric generation dams, in the Xingu River area, are in the process of being licensed and the results will likely be against local rivers marginal populations.
Most Brazilian press does not seem to care a bit about it. There is hardly any serious complaints anywhere to protect environment as it should.
Officials are prone to take measures that may remedy locally for a few years but no major future development plans exist, envisaging 20, 50 or 100 years from now, like those of Japan for instance: they simply were never thought of adequately by any authorities, whatsoever.
Experiences from elsewhere, like those above, seem to be diregarded or simply ignored.
The results seem to be quite clear against humanity’s survival by and large in the area, such as:
1. Calcutization of major large, mid-size and small cities, with consequent loss of life quality everywhere;
2. Destruction of main water sources: currently the largest known-to-mankind Acquifer Guarany is under the risk of having its sources and reservoirs poluted with chemicals draining from large plantations;
3. Destruction of human integrity through single mothers’ under 15 yrs old birth generation widespread in populated inland areas, consequent prostitution of a whole generation of young females;
4. In some areas air becomes charged with CO2, smoke and particulates, to a point that most people suffer from near-asphixiation and diverse upper aerial tract diseases ensue.
I guess I could go on indefinitely with a list of evils to mankind, but banks must get richer and richer.
So I end it here.
Good luck humans…
September 8th, 2008 at 7:33 am
We are like locusts: breeding limitlessly and destroying everything in our path.
The only solution is strict population control and old fashioned thrift in the way we consume. The former is politically infeasible (at this point) and the latter is almost impossible, given human nature.
Result: inevitable destruction of nature wherever man treads.
September 8th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Looks promising. Nice idea. I highly recommend you reveal more about the authors to give the site more credibility.
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September 8th, 2008 at 10:07 am
How old is our planet?
For how long have we been consuming the natural resources?
Do we really consume them or do we transform them (Lavoisier Law)?
I think Earth has cycles. We are just one more “cold” She got.
Soon we will be gone, leaving behind just our frozen pattern. She will not get sick of us again =]
September 8th, 2008 at 10:28 am
It is a shame that you see human use of the Earth as a bad thing. Guess what!?!? We NEED to use the Earth to survive. To build houses we HAVE to cut down trees. To feed ourselves, we HAVE to kill animals and plants. You critique the effects of concentrated industrialized living, when it is FAR more efficient than distributing the consumption over larger areas, thus damaging some areas more while preserving most areas. Think before you fear monger. And here is an idea: Humans are more important that plants and animals. Keep that in mind while you spread your pseudo science.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Agent Smith was right. Humans are a disease.
September 9th, 2008 at 6:25 am
So why dont we put screens in orbit to reduce ground temperature??
September 10th, 2008 at 6:42 am
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September 12th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
The real scary part of the Aral sea problem is the abandoned (but not decomissioned) bio-weapons facility the Soviets build on the island in the middle. Guess what, there’s no more island there (it’s a penninsula), and those “toxic wind storms” might just be carrying weapons-grade anthrax or plague too.
September 16th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
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September 17th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Regarding ‘It is a shame that you see human use of the Earth as a bad thing.’, Ben is wrong. Humans are NOT more important than the rest of the plants and animals.
By the way, I’m leaving the successful tech company I founded to spend more time working for the environment. You should consider doing the same.
September 26th, 2008 at 1:56 am
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September 27th, 2008 at 4:11 am
plantation farming…
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September 27th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
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September 29th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Very good article, thank you!