That’s the Aral Sea. The thin black line demarcates how big it originally was. But, after decades of damming and irrigation use, it’s shrunk to a fraction of its original size.
That’s just one of the pause-inducing videos featured in a Wired gallery about human changes to the earth. They’ve also got time-laspe videos of the Dubai urbanization, deforestation in the Amazon and a drought in Utah, among others.
I really hope we’re not screwing things up beyond repair, but I fear … I fear …
Grant Hamilton
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Don’t worry. Once we all die from our own stupidity, the world will eventually heal itself after a million or so years.
One of these days the earth is going to take a big fart and that will be the end of us. Probably well deserved.
http://www.greennetizen.com/2008/03/james-lovelock-father-of-gia-theory.html
I worry about what would happen centuries after a collapse, too. From what I’ve read, this is it for civilization — we’re the only chance. We’ve used up all the easy-to-get-to oil and metals, so if we get bumped back to the stone age, we’re fucked — we’re never again discovering bronze.