Did you know: The human population on our planet has grown more in the last 50 years than it did in the previous four million years. Every day, enough trash is produced in the US to equal the weight of the Empire State Building. At least 50 million acres of rainforest are lost every year. That’s more than the size of England, Scotland and Wales combined. As per a recent IUCN report, one in every four mammals is at risk of extinction.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Going by that assumption, these 27 powerful images of environmental pollution should have more of an impact than 27,000 words like the ones above. If these don’t make you stop and think about our planet, nothing will.

1. This tortoise trapped in plastic waste grew disproportionately

2. So did this turtle

3. This Koala lost his home after loggers destroyed a forest in New South Wales, Australia

4. Here’s a bird in an oil spill

5. Albatross killed by excessive plastic ingestion (Midway Islands, North Pacific)

6. A stork trapped in plastic

7. A seal that’s suffering in its own habitat

8. Penguins covered in oil

9. A wave full of trash in Java, Indonesia (the world’s most populated island)

10. This boy spends each morning looking for recyclable plastic that he can sell for 35 cents/kilo to support his family

11. Tourists pose in front of a fake Hong Kong skyline

12. Seal’s nose trapped in plastic waste

13. Look what happened to this bird stuck in an oil spill

14. Boy swimming in polluted water in India

15. Child drinks water from stream in Fuyuan County, China

16. Girl walks through smog in Beijing, where small-particle pollution is 40 times higher than acceptable levels established by the World Health Organization

17. Worker clears dead fish at a lake in Wuhan, China

18. The Ken River Oil Field in California has been exploited since 1899

19. Home to over 20 million inhabitants, here’s the landscape of Mexico City

20. A child swims in a polluted reservoir in Pingba, China

21. Landscape full of trash in Bangladesh

22. Man cleans up oil spill in Dalian Port, China

23. Every day trash at the Great Wall Of China

24. Residents look at a heavily polluted river in Zhugao, China

25. Electronic rubbish usually ends up in third-world countries, here’s a landfill in Accra, Ghana

26. A boy swims in Algae-filled water in Qingdao, China

27. A man walks by a pipe discharging waste water into the Yangtze River, China

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