A stunning number of environmental disasters have been created as a result of man’s unsustainable pursuit for a better living with little regard for the environment, from oil spills to overflowing landfills. Currently, pollution is considered to be the leading cause of death, impacting more than 100 million people globally.
That’s not all, either. Every year, pollution claims the lives of more than a million seabirds and 100 million animals.
Change is undoubtedly necessary, but shocking numbers are the best motivator for individuals to live more sustainably and reduce their carbon impact. Perhaps the images below, which in their devastating reality, reveal the truth of what is taking place all around the world.
Here are more than 20 terrible images that show the effects of man-made disasters on the ecosystem. It’s time to get up and start collecting rubbish if these pictures don’t motivate you to do so.
This Turtle Survived 19 Years Of Torture…
1. A Tortoise Trapped In Plastic
2. Homeless Koala
3. Trapped In Plastic, This Turtle’s Waist Couldn’t Grow
4. Bird In Oil Spill
Albatross Killed By Excess Plastic Ingestion (North Pacific)
5. A Stork Trapped In Plastic
6. A Wounded Seal Unsafe In Its Own Habitat
7. Oiled Penguins
8. Surfing A Wave Full Of Trash (Java, Indonesia – The World’s Most Populated Island)
9. Plastic Diver
Every Morning This Kid Searches Through Discarded Trash For Recyclable Plastic That Can Be Sold For 35 Cents Per Kilo To Help His Family.
10. Seal’s Nose Trapped In Plastic Waste
11. Bird In Oil Spill
12. Boy Swimming In Polluted Water In India
13. A Child Drinks Polluted Water From A Stream In Fuyuan County, Yunnan Province
14. Mexico City Landscape, 20 Million Inhabitants
15. Turtle Population Killed By Chemicals In Environment (Tunisia)
16. Bangladesh Landscape Filled With Trash
17. A Mute Swan Builds A Nest Using Plastic Garbage
18. Landfill In Acra (Ghana)
First-world trash usually ends up in third-world countries’ landfills.
19. Frog In Polluted Water
20. This Crab Lives In An Old Bottle
21. Plastic Bag Floating In The Sea Off The Philippines
22. Young Raccoon With Fishing Lure In His Lip
23. Pollution In A ‘Dry River’ In Bali
When rains come, all this garbage gets washed out to sea.
24. Cat Sunning In Trash (Wetsahara, Morocco)
25. A River In The Suburbs Of Mumbai
26. Open Dumping In The Streets Of New Delhi, India
27. Trash Washed Out To Sea… (Mekong, Laos)
A little amount is often enough. You may contribute to the advancement of the collective awareness by picking up rubbish when you see it, starting a recycling program in your community, or patiently teaching people about the advantages of not leaving waste behind.
What do you believe?
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