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| When viewed from above, it is clear that the space we've allotted to the natural world is shrinking at an alarming rate. Urban sprawl, infrastructure, destructive entertainment and extractive industries dominate ever more of our landscape as our consumptive appetites increase because there are, simply, more of us. Mining, drilling and logging are some of the most destructive operations because antiquated laws like the General Mining Act of 1872 have enabled some companies to despoil the environment and leave their waste products unabated while successfully lobbying lawmakers not to update regulations. As the local population weighs the jobs created against the toxic legacy of these operations, the appeal is eventually made for clean up which should have been part of the cost of extraction but is often paid by the public. For more info: El Paso's ASARCO Superfund Site Remediation, BP's Other Spill You probably Haven't Heard About, Fracking Causes Toxic Blowout of Pennsylvania Well, Niger Delta Devastation Dwarfs Gulf Disaster, BP's Accidental Terrorism Worse Than 911 Terrorist Attack, Video: BP's Stake in Tar Sands Development, Oil and Water Don't Mix, Farmers Face Tough Choices, Drilling News, The Dirtiest Form of Energy, Massy Energy Has violated the Clean Water Act 12,000 Times, The Cost of An Artificial Forest, Oceans Saturated, Losing Ability to Absorbe CO2, The Great Barrier Reef Will Die Unless CO2 Emissions Slashed, Drilling the Roan Plateau, Indigenous Preservation, Poison in the Earth, CRUDE: The Film Chevron Doesn't Want You To See, Destroying Indigenous Populations, EPA to Rebuild Uranium Polluted Homes, Tar Sands Devastation, Atlas Minerals Moab Cleanup Started, Flammble Water in Pennsylvania, Occidental Petroleum Despoils Amazon, U.S. and French Nuclear Connection, Cleanup of Abandon Mines, Firms Move Slowly to Curb Environmental Damage, The Half Life of Memory and Science Warned Us This Would Happen |
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Aerial and Terrestrial Environmental Photography and Art
All Content © 2007-2010 Grant Johnson
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