Moving Instagram account lets you follow along as humans destroy the Earth

Zach Epstein

Watching our planet crumble around us has never looked so beautiful.

It’s difficult to dispute the impact humans have had on Earth, and the damage isn’t slowing down. While progress continues to be made thanks to increased efforts surrounding renewable energy, electric vehicles and other endeavors, mankind has much work to do if it hopes to reverse the years of negative impact modern technologies have had on the climate. And now, a project on Instagram looks to open our eyes to the causes and effects of global warming with stunning photography captured by professional and amateur photographers across five continents.

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Everyday Climate Change is a must-follow for every Instagram user out there. The account curates photos posted on Instagram that document the causes and impact of global warming. From deforestation and smog to offshore oil drilling and landfills, the account does a wonderful job of bringing these important issues to the public’s attention in a smart new way.

You’ll find a selection of photos from the account embedded below, and you can follow Everyday Climate Change by following the link in our source section.

Photo by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert @JshPhotog – Natural rain forest, and the clear-cutting destruction of it, to make way for Sinar Mas/APP-owned plantations to produce pulp paper, in Rimba Hutan Mas logging concession, in southern Sumatra province, Indonesia, in 2010. In 2013 Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), the company responsible for the clear cutting in this image, declared a moratorium on their use of natural forestry, and ended their clear-cutting deforestation work. Speaking in BusinessGreen on 21st March 2013, Aida Greenbury, APP Sustainability Director, said, ‘It was tough for us at the time when Greenpeace launched reports and attacked us and launched boycotts – it was very tough for us. It was hard for us to understand and realise what they said might be true, we were slightly in denial." But in May this year APP called on the Indonesian government to ask for a stronger moratorium on deforestation and policies that enable companies to support conservation, APP Sustainability Director, Aida Greenbury saying "To be blunt, deforestation is unnecessary, it damages the reputational standing of Indonesia abroad and it hinders the success of our businesses.” But APP is one company, and seem to have changed their ways. Many other companies still need to be held accountable. Deforestation still exists in many places, many countries. It is estimated that up to twenty percent of global greenhouse emissions annually are caused by the deforestation of natural forests worldwide. #Indonesia #Sumatra #deforestation #forest #forestry #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeIsReal

A photo posted by Everyday Climate Change (@everydayclimatechange) on Jun 29, 2015 at 1:04am PDT

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