Patterns Of Population

Cows and Smoke

Ground zero in the war on nature – cattle graze among the burning Amazon jungle in Brazil

South City Mall in Kolkata, India

Consumer culture spreads to the global south 

‘In the developing world, the problem of population is seen less as a matter of human numbers than of western over-consumption. Yet within the development community, the only solution to the problems of the developing world is to export the same unsustainable economic model fuelling the overconsumption of the West.’

Trash wave

Indonesian surfer Dede Surinaya catches a wave in a remote but garbage-covered bay on Java, Indonesia, the world’s most populated island

Oil Wells

Depleting oil fields are yet another symptom of ecological overshoot as seen at the Kern River Oil Field in California

Dead Bird

On Midway Atoll, far from the centers of world commerce, an albatross, dead from ingesting too much plastic, decays on the beach – it is a common sight on the remote island

Reservoir development

Former old-growth forest leveled for reservoir development, Willamette National Forest, Oregon

Population Pyramids