After watching the slide about Anthropocene,it brought me a strong impacts with all those images showing how badly we are current damaging our planet. It also lead me starting to think how can we do something to save our planet. Within all problems being showed from slides, conflicts like oil spilling, petrochemical plants, oil fracking, and clear cutting should become main concern for us to think about.
For example, in the slide oil spill #1, it directly point out how can oil spilling severely damage environment. According to the slides, oil spilling can cause heavily damage the local eco-system and society since the area being polluted is abandoned for all tourists including, boating, diving or swimming. In addition, since the water in oil spilling areas are badly contaminated it can also kills all the species living in that areas. Therefore, it not only resulting as the negative impact to local fishing industry, but also causing unbalance of local eco-system. In addition, since oil can not combining together with water and can last for years long without dissolving, it requires governments or company to pay a huge amount of money in order to clean it. according to the data, each year there will be at least more thousands of tones oil being spilling to environments due to all kinds of reason. Even though now oil spilling start to receive more attention from society within more people realize the crucial to prevent this. the number of oil spilling is still high. Which means, there are still large areas beingi polluted each year.
In addition, industry like mining and clear cutting are also destroying the local eco-system, without people knowing. As both the photograph shot by Burtynsky and the analysis slide reveals how can these industries heavily influence the environment. In order to plant palm trees which contains palm oil that has a high economic values. forest in south Africa are largely being destroyed. In this case, it can lead to lost of habitat, break of local eco-system, increasing the possibility of flood, and accelerate the progress of climate change. Furthermore, within the build of plantation such as palm or cotton, it can also damage the local soil. As all known, cotton is one of the plants that dealing worst damage to soil. Therefore, it can impact animals and other plants who use those areas as their habitat. which may eventually result as the disorder of local eco-system.
As the video above reveals, clear cutting can also have negative impacts on human.
As can be found from this graph, during the process of clear cutting, there will be large amount of fossil fuels being burnt and emit CO2 into the atmosphere. Despite that, it also emit gases like methane and Nitrous oxide which are all green house gases.
As a conclusion, the art works created by Burtynsky directly reveals the situation we are facing right now. By watching, these photograph, it reminds us the importance to immediately react to these phenomenon before its to late.
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