10 Powerful Images That Show How Overpopulated The World Actually Is. Guess it’s time to go to Mars?
1. Ice and waterfalls. These shouldn't really go together.
"Melting water on icecap, North East Land, Svalbard, Norway."
2. This island is literally shrinking.
"One of Earth’s most vulnerable nations to climate change, the Maldive Islands are severely threatened by rising sea levels."
3. Just another parade in Germany.
"Mass rallies and other cultural events are only possible in a mass society. The 'Love Parade' in Tiergarten Park, Berlin, Germany.".
4. Whoa. That's one heck of a mine.
"The Mir Mine in Russia is the world’s largest diamond mine."
5. Catching a trash wave.
"Indonesian surfer Dede Surinaya catches a wave in a remote but garbage-covered bay on Java, Indonesia, the world’s most populated island."
6. Clear-cut hills in Canada.
"Sometimes called the Brazil of the North, Canada has not been kind to its native forests. Image of clear-cut logging on Vancouver Island."
7. When containers become part of the skyline.
"Shipping containers, indispensable tool of the globalized consumer economy, reflect the skyline in Singapore, one of the world’s busiest ports."
8. Oil spill conflagration.
"Aerial view of an oil fire following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, Gulf of Mexico."
9. Smoke clouds.
"Coal-burning power plant, United Kingdom."
10. "Waves of humanity?"
"Sprawling Mexico City, Mexico, population 20 million, density 24,600/mile (63,700/square kilometer), rolls across the landscape, displacing every scrap of natural habitat."
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