Extensive photographs of industrialization, urbanization and deforestation by Edward Burtynsky show how humans are destroying the Earth.

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Oil flows in the Niger, Nigeria Plains in 2016.

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Phosphor streak near Lake Lakeland, Florida, USA in 2012.

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Landfill landfill, filled with plastic waste, Nairobi, Kenya 2016.

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Pengah Wall, Komodo National Park, Indonesia 2017.

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Chuquicamata copper mine, Calama, Chile 2017.

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Sawmill, Lagos, Nigeria in 2016.

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Coal mines in North Rhine, Westphalia, Germany, 2015.

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New logs, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada in 2016.

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Moreci Mine, Clifton, Arizona, USA 2012.

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Oil flows in the Niger, Nigeria plains in 2016.

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Uralkali compound mine in Berezniki, Russia in 2017.