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Gallery Walk
Directions: Quietly walk around the room and look carefully at each picture, reading the caption underneath. Write down 4-5 words or phrases that come to your mind as you look at each picture. Write the title of the picture before you write the words/phrases.
Dodging trash: Indonesian surfer Dede Surinaya catches a wave in an isolated but garbage-covered bay on Java, Indonesia, the world’s most populated island.
Harder and harder to breathe: Air pollution, C02, and water vapor rise from stacks at a coal-burning power plant in the United Kingdom.
Waterfall of melting ice: In both the Arctic and Antarctic regions, ice is getting smaller. Here water is melting on an icecap in the North East Land of Svalbard, Norway.
Addiction to oil: Oil fields are yet another way we are killing our earth. Kern River Oil Field, California, U.S.
Nowhere to go: All of these tires end up in a desert dumping ground in Nevada, U.S.A.
All that's precious: The Mir Mine in Russia is the world’s largest diamond mine.
Naked: Sometimes this is called the Brazil of the North, because Canada has not been kind to its native forests. Here is an image of logging (cutting down trees) on Vancouver Island.
Digital death: Massive quantities of waste from old computers and other electronics are typically shipped to poor countries for sorting and/or getting rid of them. Photo from Accra, Ghana
Killer waste: On Midway Island, an albatross bird is dead from eating too much plastic. This is a common sight on this island.
Stumped: What used to be a forest is now gone to build a reservoir. Willamette National Forest, Oregon
Trashed: Brick kilns (an oven that is used to make bricks for buildings) is surrounded by trash in Bangladesh
Moving in: Here is a picture of the war on nature. Cattle try to eat grass while they are next to a burning Amazon jungle, Brazil
No space wasted: Mexico City, Mexico, population 20 million, density 24,600/mile (63,700/square kilometer), rolls across the landscape, where there used to be a natural habitat for plants and animals.
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