A short video about the possible paths for very different futures and the human health and human rights enhancing approaches that can create tremendous positive global change, such as education for all girls and boys and family planning availability for every one. Courtesy: Global Population Speak Out

WARNING: Some graphic images.

THEY say a picture paints a thousand words.

So in sending a message about overpopulation, environmental group Global Population Speak Out decided to do it with a book of photographs.

Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot (OVER) aims to open the world’s eyes to the perils of overpopulation on the planet. The free e-book shows a series of powerful photographs along with expert commentary from human rights, population and conservation experts. Check out a sample of the compelling pictures below:

Dead Polar Bear

Ice Waterfall

“The Arctic situation is snowballing: dangerous changes in the Arctic derived from accumulated anthropogenic greenhouse gases lead to more activities conducive to further greenhouse gas emissions. this situation has the momentum of a runaway train.”– Carlos Duarte.

Shrinking Island

“The island is full of holes and seawater is coming through these, flooding areas that weren’t normally flooded 10 or 15 years ago. There are projections of about 50 years [before the islands disappear]. After this, we will be drowned.”– Paani Laupepa.

Storm from Space

Airplane Contrails

Toxic Landscape

Circles and Squares

Drain Pipe

“Think of Alberta as the Nigeria of the north. (Well, there are a lot more white people in Alberta, and Canada’s military hasn’t killed anybody to protect the oil business.) Both economies have been increasingly dominated by oil. In 2009 Nigeria exported around 2.1 million barrels of oil per day; Canada exported 1.9 million barrels per day. Environmental regulation of the oil industry in both Nigeria and Alberta is lax, and the industry has been actively opposed by native people — the Ogoni, in particular, in Nigeria and the Cree in Alberta.” – Winona LaDuke and Martin Curry.

Oil Spill Fire

Container City

Big Hole

Oil Wells

Clear-cut

Computer Dump

Smokestacks and Garbage

Night-time Grid

“American suburbia represents the greatest miss-allocation of resources in the history of the world. the far-flung housing subdivisions, commercial highway strips, big-box stores, and all the other furnishings and accessories of extreme car dependence will function poorly, if at all, in an oil-scarce future.” – James Howard Kunstler

Satellite Dishes

Urban Scene

“Faced with a world that can support either a lot of us consuming a lot less or far fewer of us consuming more, we’re deadlocked: individuals, governments, the media, scientists, environmentalists, economists, human rights workers, liberals, conservatives, business and religious leaders. On the supremely divisive question of the ideal size of the human family, we’re amazingly united in a pact of silence.” – Julia Whitty.

Dead Bird

Wave of rubbish

City Night

Tire Dump