Climate Change, Featured - Sunday, September 7, 2008 17:20 - 17 Comments

9 Global Devastation Hotspots, Before and After

The world is changing.  It has gone beyond the perceptions of the skeptics who say it’s “a cycle” and demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that humans are having a dramatic and negative impact on the world.

Yesterday, we covered UNEP and their Atlas of Our Changing Environment.  Today, we took a look at nearly 200 of the hotspots listed and found the 11 most compelling image sets that depict the world through satellite images the way that it was and the way that it is now.  Some of these images were extremely dramatic with major changes apparent in a very short period of time.

Here are the images that portray the greatest human impact on the environment: Continue…