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Topic: Snapshots of planet Earth:
From the ghost towns of
Spain to life and laughter
on an African rubbish dump,
entries pour in for
environmental photography competition |
Snapshots of planet Earth:
From the ghost towns of
Spain to life and laughter
on an African rubbish dump,
entries pour in for
environmental photography competition
Daily Mail (UK), by Daniel Miller
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Posted By:JoniTx, 2/20/2013 3:14:47 PM
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| As diverse as they are beautiful, these stunning entries for the Environmental Photographer of the Year Competition capture the ever-changing and often precarious relationship between human beings and the natural world. From the children playing with an old television set by a west African rubbish dump to a crumbling colonial-era building in Bangladesh still serving the needs of some of the country´s poorest people, daily life in all corners of the planet is brought sharply into focus. Plastic greenhouses transform the landscape in central Spain into a geometric grid of agriculture, while in another part of the country,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 2/20/2013 3:46:02 PM (No. 9187292)
Spare me the commentary.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
rosewater, 2/20/2013 3:48:36 PM (No. 9187301)
Cry me a river. So now we have to canvas the planet to find pictures of environmental ´abuse´?
The one with the fisherman houses and the power plant in the background? He said ´smoke´ started coming out and then it started to snow. That´s because most of the ´smoke´ was water vapor.
The one of the greenpeace idiots trying to shut down that oil rig? I would have kicked them off and shot a hole in their boat.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
RightShoe, 2/20/2013 3:52:10 PM (No. 9187311)
Nice examples of intellectual vacancy.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
veritas, 2/20/2013 4:01:20 PM (No. 9187334)
Women, minorities, children most affected!
[Is anyone looking for what it is that makes male white adults immune to everything? That would seem to be valuable knowledge.]
No photo can provide any scale or measurement of effects [or their absence]. No photo can discover and explain the processes and mechanisms involved.
Which pretty much leaves propaganda as their use and effect.
#2: But we´re not supposed to know that!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ocjim, 2/20/2013 4:24:28 PM (No. 9187396)
Fine photos. Some valid commentary but mainly stereotypically Lefty hand wringing play by play... Even lamenting greenhouses that provide year round produce. Lefties stare out into a bleak, God-less world... Not a glass half-full view, their glass is broken and must be repurposed.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ocjim, 2/20/2013 4:27:29 PM (No. 9187404)
And what magical substance powered the Greenpeace ship to that oil platform?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
schnapps, 2/20/2013 4:50:04 PM (No. 9187474)
What´s more environmentally friendly than empty houses? No water usage, no garbage, no sewer.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Hermoine, 2/20/2013 5:25:27 PM (No. 9187535)
My favorite "caption" was the one of the mom and young boy in Mongolia and how these people, (third worlders) who have contributed "least" to climate change will be hit hardest. Then the next picture is of a woman pulling a dead sheep in the "harsh" cold climate of Mongolia.
Apparently, the caption writer does not have any sense of history or geography. Mongolia has ALWAYS been a harsh, hard place to live. Oh, and he can thank Ghengis Khan for climate change...without his connecting of trade routes and opening up of commerce via "endless" war, we probably wouldn´t have the modern world that we have.
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