Humans leave their mark on the planet:
The devastating impact of mankind on the planet is dramatically illustrated in pictures published on Saturday showing explosive urban sprawl, major deforestation and the sucking dry of inland seas over less than three decades.
Mexico City mushrooms from a modest urban center in 1973 to a massive blot on the landscape in 2000, while Beijing shows a similar surge between 1978 and 2000 in satellite pictures published by the United Nations in a new environmental atlas.
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“If there is one message from this atlas it is that we are all part of this. We can all make a difference,” U.N. expert Kaveh Zahedi told reporters at the launch of the “One Planet Many People” atlas on the eve of World Environment Day.
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“These illustrate some of the changes we have made to our environment,” Zahedi said. “This is a visual tool to capture people’s imaginations showing what is really happening.”
“It serves as an early warning,” he added.
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