Check out the article and amazing photos on:
“What Humans Are Really Doing to Our Planet, in 19 Jaw-Dropping Images”.
“It's difficult to always know the impacts of our daily choices, like the real effect of buying a bottled water or an extra TV or laptop. With 220,000 more people on the planet every day, and the average person generating over 4 pounds of waste a day — an almost 60% increase since 1960 — the impact of that growth and change in behavior is rarely seen like this.”
Read more at: http://mic.com/articles/117312/you-ve-never-seen- … his-before
The top photo is in Bangladesh where much of the world's cloting and goods are manufactured. The second photo is from Indonesia where local residents, with no access to waste diaposal infrastructure, throw trash and garbage into rivers running to the ocean.
Interesting Article on Some Ideas You Don't See Much in the Media
While much of our air, water and land pollution in the West is due to packaging and waste of consumer goods, in China their pollution is caused mainly by production of those same products whish they consume and sell to us.
Cool but eye-opening photos. Thanks.