2023-06-05 15:58
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Today (5 June) is World Environment Day, which was established to draw the world's attention to the state of the planet and the harm caused by human activities to the environment. In recent years, with the improvement of people's awareness of environmental protection, ecological protection is becoming the consensus of more and more people, but the situation of global ecological environmental protection is not optimistic.
According to the latest news from the United Nations Environment Programme, the world produces more than 400 million tons of plastic every year, one-third of which is used only once, which is equivalent to 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic dumping plastic into rivers and lakes every day.
The following images may make you uncomfortable, but this is the harsh reality!
On September 23, 2019, local time, on the beach on the Costa del Este in Panama City, people saw garbage, including plastic waste. Luis Acosta / Visual China
On January 2, 2019, 32-year-old photographer Azim Khan Ronnie used a drone to document the astonishing scale of Bangladesh's brick industry and showed the extent of seaweed dispersion in a series of aerial photographs. The brick-making process wreaks havoc on the surrounding environment, with an estimated 1 million people producing tens of billions of bricks in 7,000 separate kilns each year. In the capital, Dhaka, pollution from brick and dye factories is increasing, and the Turag River turns green from algae blooms. Azim Khan Ronnie/Visual China
On March 3, 2018, local time, a British man took a shocking picture while diving in the waters of Bali. There is a lot of plastic waste floating in the ocean: bottles, bags, cups, buckets, straws, etc. Fish are avoided. Visual China
On December 3, 2018, local time, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina experienced heavy air pollution, and the city was shrouded in smog. Anadolu Agency/Visual China
On December 2, 2018, local time, New Delhi, India, a large amount of toxic foam appeared in the Yamuna River due to pollution. Hindustan Times/Visual China
On March 29, 2018, local time, Khartoum, Sudan, the local area suffered a strong sandstorm, forcing flights to cancel and schools to close. Visual China
On July 11, 2017, local time, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, heavy rains and chemical raw materials paralyzed traffic in the old city of Dhaka. Visual China
September 17, 2021, local time, East Java, Indonesia, environmental group ECOTON made a device from waste plastic, including 4,444 plastic bottles collected from rivers, to raise public awareness of plastic waste in rivers and oceans. JUNI KRISWANTO/VISUAL CHINA
We have only one earth, and to love the environment is to love ourselves. Let us jointly commit: protect the earth, starting from you and me, starting now!
Executive Producer: Cai Xiaojuan
Curator: Tang Jialei, Ma Kuang
Finishing: Ma Kuang
Draftsman: Tang Jialei
Reviewed: Cai Xiaojuan
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