These Shocking Photos Show The Devastating Effects Of Overpopulation. Scary

in #science8 years ago

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Ever since the 1800’s, human population has exploded from 1 to 8 billion people and growing, and the planet is simply not designed to house this amount of humans. The environment ends up taking a massive hit due to overpopulation. Mexico City is one example of an overcrowded place that has done major damage to the landscape surrounding it.

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Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, houses over four million people.

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New Delhi in India tops 25 million.

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Here’s electricity use in Los Angeles.

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Humans are wasteful creatures. Look at all their waste produced by a Bangladeshi incineration plant.

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Here’s a Canadian oil sands plant.

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The surrounding ecology is impacted negatively by the oil sands development.

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A field of stumps remains in a one time forest in Oregon after a dam is built.

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Once covered in trees, this is now what a mountain in British Columbia looks like.

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A massive diamond mine in Russia.

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Oil pumping has killed this California plot of land.

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A Brazilian barren wasteland is used for beefing up cattle.

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Sickening amounts of smoke pumping out of power plants in England.

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Major air traffic pollution right over London.

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The over consumption tradition known as “Black Friday”.

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Dumped tires in the Nevada desert with no care on environmental effects.

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Sickening way to dispose of toxic chemicals like this appliance waste.

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Speaks for itself.

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Sickening how much “stuff” gets dumped in the ocean. A whole “garbage island” has even formed in the northern Pacific.

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No concern for the animals that will end up eating this trash.

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Human hunters will take them out if the pollution doesn’t.

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The Amur tiger is endangered, yet is still being hunted.

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Pollution caused shifts in weather patterns and as a result more ecological disasters occur.

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This river in China (the Yellow River) reeks.

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Global weather patterns shift and droughts become commonplace. The result is also wildfires like these that tore through Colorado.

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Directly in the line of fire.

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Ice caps and glaciers melt away at an incredible rate.

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Ecosystems are ruined and animals such as the polar bear here in Norway end up starving to death.

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Soon some island nations, like the Maldives will be underwater due to the melting of the polar ice caps.

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If every woman in the world only had 1 child, the population would half in 50 years

Sickening amounts of smoke pumping out of power plants in England
(giggle)....water vapor from cooling towers.