Earth Day 2015: 17 Powerful Images of A Descecrated Planet

Enormous iceberg melting near Svalbard island in Norway

These photos of acute environmental damage have been collected into a book ‘Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot’ by the environmental awareness platform Global Population Speak Out. The pages show the harsh realities of the ecological and social tragedies that cause the Earth’s extreme suffering at the hands of unfettered human consumption and overpopulation. Not all groups — the Catholic Church as one example — agree that having 10 children in poor families is a problem for the Earth, but most scientists and ecologists share a different view.

Global Population Speak Out provides a link for everyone to have a look at the book online for free, but if you want it in your bookshelf, you can also find it on Amazon.

Tar-rich zone in Alberta, Canada destroyed by mining and toxic wastes

Indonesian forest transformed into palm plantation

Fire at oil platform in Gulf of Mexico , April 2010

The Yellow river in Mongolia is so polluted that it’s almost impossible to breathe near it

Landscape covered in greenhouses, Almeria (Spain)

National Willamette forest, Oregon USA) 99% deforested

Part of the Amazonian jungle in Brazil, burnt down to be ‘repurposed’

Ken River oil field, California (USA)

World’s biggfest excavator, Bagger 288, used to extract coal in Tagebau Hambach strip mine (Germany)

Landfill in Accra (Ghana). Our electronic rubbbish is frequently shipped to Third-World countries.

Landscape filled with trash in Bangladesh

Surfing on a wave full of trash in Java (Indonesia)

Albatross killed by excessive plastic ingestion in Midway Islands (North Pacific)

Mir mine, Russia. This gigantic hole is the world’s biggest diamond mine.

The Maldives are flooding because of global warming and human action. It’s forecast that they will sink in 50 years.

Mexico City landscape with 20 million inhabitants.