13 images reveal the shocking reality of pollution in the world

Humanity is a true evolutionary success: despite a number of limitations, our ancestors have adapted to the harshest environments and, over time, have managed to alter the landscape around them and develop techniques for dealing with the unpredictability of the world and the world. turn it into a less hostile place.

Progress, however, has come at a very high price, and it is not difficult to identify the negative results of the civilizing advance. As you can see in this series of images, on the same planet where life gives rise to spectacles of color and smell, you can find a sea of ​​trash choking and endangering the survival of other species. Check it out:

1. Pig amid solid waste floating on the waters of Rio de Janeiro (RJ)

2. In Peru, child bathes in a lake that was once a heavy metal extraction mine

3. Dead dolphin floating on Gowanus Canal on the outskirts of New York

4. Dead birds in New Zealand following an oil spill

5. Fish floating lifeless in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro (RJ)

6. South Korean Soldiers Cleaning Up a Beach After Oil Spill

7. Chinese swimming in a river where industrial waste is thrown

8. Recyclable waste pickers in Guatemala

9. Tons of Garbage Accumulated on a Greenland Beach Sand Strip

10. The suffocating record of air pollution in a Chinese metropolis

11. Without selective waste collection and sanitation, all waste from Mumbai, India, will end up in rivers

12. Buringanga - the main and most polluted watercourse of Daka, the capital of Bangladesh.

13. Shackle discharging untreated sewage into a river in Mainland

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