Blog : ANTHROPOCENE

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8/26/2018 6:29 pm

ANTHROPOCENE

Anthropocene.......Proposed as a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene is defined as the permanent impact of Human activities on Earth, such as terraforming through mining, urbanization and agriculture, Human-caused extinction and biodiversity loss and the global presence of materials such as plastics and concrete.

A photography exhibition by Edward Burtynsky.

photo 1...Cerro Dominados Solar project Atacama Desert, Chile
photo 2...Saw Mills, Lagos Nigeria
photo 3....Coal Mine, North Rhine, Westphalia, Germany
photo 4...Phosphor Tailing Pond, Lakeland Florida
photo 5...Salt Pan, Little Rannof Kutch, Guyarat India

Humans now affect the Earth and it's processes more than all other natural forces combined.

sparkleflit 76F

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8/26/2018 6:30 pm

Beautiful photography.......

MrsJoe 76F

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8/27/2018 8:28 am

Not all of man's projects are destructive, but it does amaze me to see those waves of plastic garbage...... with all the technology, why can't all that be turned into usable products again?
The pictures that you have posted are spectacular viewed from that perspective.

Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.

MrsJoe 76F

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8/27/2018 1:27 pm

True. But I have seen photos of great masses of floating plastic, and thought there should be a way to capture it since it is in such a great mass.

Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.

sparkleflit 76F

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8/27/2018 4:53 pm

MrsJoe

The ocean has been treated like a giant garbage dump for centuries. The ocean disappeared it for a long time, when the quantities were small and the material biodegraded. Then, along came plastics, competitive, run-away consumerism coupled with an addiction to convenience and disposability....The city of New York for instance, tows huge garbage barges out into the Atlantic and dumps them.....that's how they have been dealing with their garbage for decades......Most coastal cities and those on rivers that flow to the ocean emty their gray water and sewage into the water.......releasing huge amounts of micro-plastics into the oceans that are poison to ocean fauna and flora......Sea creatures are dying from plastic pollution at a rapid rate.

There are huge machines that can remove plastics from the ocean, but they are extremely expensive to build and operate.......who is willing to pay for that? When is New York or Mumbai or the Philippines going to buy and operate these machines?..........The oceans are vast and there is no money to be made cleaning them up......First we all have to stop using plastic.....even our clothes shed plastic micro-beads into the laundry water to be flushed into the oceans....

Humanity has an addiction problem that is going to smother us to death if we don't hurry up and solve it.