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Unmitigated Environmental Disasters Illustrated
Submitted by Samuel Raphael Franco
on April 19, 2010 – 2:22 am
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This week’s Geocurrentcast is entirely dedicated to about baker’s dozen sites that epitomize the nasty human footprint that comes with heavy metals, heavy industry, and heavy consumerism.
The histories of Stalinist industrial wastelands, leaking oil Nigerian pipelines, massive American landfills, Brazilian Deforestation, smog filled Chinese cities, and towering Sarin gas smelters are all illustrated in this weeks in Google Earth tour on Geocurrents.info.
In order to view the tour, first download Google Earth.
Then download this KMZ file, with complete with descriptions, waypoints, and overlays to increase your understanding of these man made tragedies.
Rather than lecture over the tour, the areas speak for themselves. I’ve provided basic historic information, but I encourage all to see this as a call for social justice.
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