Aerial photographs of pollution by J Henry Fair

[treesparrow]

Polluted America: Amazingly colourful aerial pictures that highlight damage to Earth wrought by industry

By Leon Watson

At first glance they're beautiful, but these incredible snaps reveal something far more ugly.

J Henry Fair's spectacular aerial images show the devastation man has wreaked on America.

Pollution is exposed on a massive scale, creating striking vivid colours that highlight the scars of spillages, open cast mining, chemical and oil leaks, industrial decay and deforestation.

Here's some of the most striking -

Cast-offs: This shows oil from sand extraction at Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. After the bitumen is removed, vast quantities of 'tailings' remain, which are the residue containing everything but the bitumen

'Red mud': The shocking red colour marks where the earth has been scarred by Bauxite waste from aluminium production, which contains significant amounts of heavy metal contamination. Pictured at Darrow, Louisiana

Oil plant: Here the effects of toxins produced in an oil refinery in Alberta, Canada, are pictured. A puddle of black and dark purple expands from its centre

Bright: This chemical plant near New Orleans makes derivatives used in a range of products, from cosmetics to plastic wrappings and paint additives. The pollution produced looks like a series of biological cells in this photo

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053645/A-silk-purse-sows-ear-The-colourful-snaps-ugly-Americas-pollution.html

 

[ashu]

Frightening to say the least :(

 

[bngenoh]

It looks like cancer.

 

[Al Today]

I'm having a hard time accepting that something so deadly toxic can be so beautifully colored.


And even more distressed that some humanoids do that to our BBM without any care for tomorrow.!.!.!